Saul Bellow Quotes
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
Quotes to Explore
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But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.
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The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that's all it is, then we've gotta as: how many nuclear weapons do you need to do that?
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Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed.
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My job is to provide the atmosphere and assistance to the contestants to get them to perform at their very best. And if I'm successful doing that, I will be perceived as a nice guy, and the audience will think of me as being a bit of a star.
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Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.
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Anyone with any sense knew that one of the best parts of the day was the hour just as the sun was rising.
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Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
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Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.
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In order to lift a certain object from the ground, we have to use energy. But then to sustain it at that level, we have to keep on adding energy, or otherwise, the object falls to the ground. It's exactly the same thing with the sound.
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Everybody knows if it's on the Internet, some brilliant hacker can get at it.
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The fear factor actually brings the genuineness.
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Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.
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Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.
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But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was here to save us from what people call the monotony of life.
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The undiluted Jesus is someone who invites us to actually follow him—to do the things that he did—and to be willing to set aside anything in our lives that gets in the way of that central calling. It’s a calling for us to simply look like Jesus. To let the dead bury the dead. To embrace an uncertain future. To pick up a cross. If we want to rediscover the radical message of Jesus, we must stop diluting it by focusing on power, peace of mind, and prosperity. Instead, we must embrace the truly radical message that invites us to find life through laying it down. Ironically—if we do this—we’ll actually find the life we’re looking for, unfamiliar as it may be.
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The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.
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Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
