Peter Murphy Quotes
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
W. H. Auden
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Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Laurence J. Peter
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It's funny: in the middle of making 'The Muse,' I was offered, at the time, the first 'Ice Age,' the part that Ray Romano took: I was offered the elephant. And I couldn't even stop to breathe, so I didn't do it. They've made, like, six of them. And in the animation business, for a voice actor, that's what you want. You want six, you know?
Albert Brooks
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I either go all in or all out.
Carlos Beruff
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Graphene is dead; long live graphene.
Andre Geim
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We threaten to rain fire upon North Korea and Iran, yet we quail before an elderly, impoverished and decrepit Russia. How diminished we are as a civilization.
Daniel Hannan
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
Talcott Parsons
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While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble.
Jane Jacobs
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Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.
Confucius
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The enemy of liberal capitalism today is not so much socialism as nihilism.
Irving Kristol
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If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.
Flannery O'Connor
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Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.
Albert Camus
