Evelyn Underhill Quotes
It seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for years without ever sinning against society, but we sin against loveliness every hour of the day.
Quotes to Explore
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
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Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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Building sustainable cities - and a sustainable future - will need open dialogue among all branches of national, regional and local government. And it will need the engagement of all stakeholders - including the private sector and civil society, and especially the poor and marginalized.
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The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.
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I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.
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The world is in motion, as it seems.
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Mubarak's regime is dead and finished. People will not go back to this. This is a farce being propagated by the Muslim Brotherhood to say that this revolution was supported by the remnants of the Mubarak regime. They have gone against the whole Egyptian society, and this is why they were removed.
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I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their disability, about people with different sexual orientations, or a boy who is a cross-dresser. We need to reflect the diversity of our society.
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Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.
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Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
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The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.
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The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.
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We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.
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The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.
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When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
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The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,-a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.
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I've always been concerned with what happens to children in our society when there's nobody left to take care of them.
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A lot of the time, I write in the third person, but I'm mostly describing my own ordeals. When those unsettled struggles prey on your mind, you become haunted. To get free, you must defeat your ghosts.
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The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
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Help me find some shoes I really like. Help me also to find a nymphomaniac coke connection who owns a Ferrari dealership.
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I think more money can be very detrimental to movies and TV because things get solved economically rather than creatively, and that's never a good solution.
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It seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for years without ever sinning against society, but we sin against loveliness every hour of the day.
