Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Quotes
It is only our exactions of life that are terrible. It is only our impossible conceptions of beauty and good and justice that are terrible--because they never are realized, and at the same time they prevent us taking life as it is. That is the real source of all our sorrow and suffering.
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Martin Luther King Jr., recognized bias when he saw it, knew what he was talking about.
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Webster was much possessed by deathAnd saw the skull beneath the skin
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I used to work at a puppy nursery.
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The Martians are always coming.
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The practice of charity will bind us - will bind all men in one great brotherhood.
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He drew himself up and said with dignity: 'We administer justice, Mr. Courtenay. And an ancient, basic tenet of justice is: ‘Better that one thousand innocents suffer unjustly than one guilty person be permitted to escape.’'
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The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible.
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Justice is the sum of all moral duty.
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In some people's eyes, nudity is so much more dangerous than violence. I never really understood that.
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It is only our exactions of life that are terrible. It is only our impossible conceptions of beauty and good and justice that are terrible--because they never are realized, and at the same time they prevent us taking life as it is. That is the real source of all our sorrow and suffering.
