Northrop Frye Quotes
Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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In emerging markets, slow growth in the advanced economies has shut down a traditional development path: export-led growth. As a result, emerging markets have had to rely once again on domestic demand. This is always a difficult task, given the temptation to over-stimulate.
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Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.
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I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.
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Human beings have always been mythmakers.
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There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.
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A group of painters assembled in my home, read with pleasure the article you published in 'L'Avenir national'. We are all very pleased to see you defend ideas which are also ours, and we hope that, as you say, 'L'Avenir national' will kindly lend us its support when the Society we are in the process of forming is finally established.
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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. (This quotation is from Notebook IV in Notebooks: 1942-1951, not Myth of Sisyphus. The quotation appears in none of Camus books you find in bookstores).
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Life is malleable and the hammer is desire.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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A willing heart is the first step in finding God's will in our lives. We cannot expect God to force us or to plead with us about the calling in our lives.
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When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity; it was just 'the wine,' from the cellar cask. The rules were general: white with the first course, red with the main course.
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Separatism is a very healthy movement within culture. It's a disastrous movement within politics and economics.
