Bernard Lonergan Quotes
Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.
Quotes to Explore
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The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
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If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working.
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In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale.
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However time or circumstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever.
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We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
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Reactive arthritis is something I've been dealing with for nearly a year.
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Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.
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The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.
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A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.
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Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all. De-accession euphemisms. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
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I will never run out of quotes. I am, after all, the Thom Yorke.
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I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.
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I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way - though it's quite strenuous on the fingertips.
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I tend to fly old airplanes and old sort of things that are nearly about as old as me. Biplanes and stuff like that.
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You minimize my moves in anyway, I must persuade you another way.
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You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.
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Well, you know, it's a younger person, and it was maybe an effort to be a little more sincere and adult about the lyrics occasionally, which is a good thing. It's nice that it's not too self-conscious like some of our lyrics could be.
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Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love.
