Brian Morton Quotes
He was like a fireman of intellectual life, rescuing frail forgotten thinkers from the burning building of time.
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I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
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I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
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The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.
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In my mind I know the name of an ocean the size of everything that was. My mouth can only call it death.
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Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
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The best way to overcome undesirable or negative thoughts and feelings is to cultivate the positive ones.
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Love is the essence of all religion, mysticism, and philosophy, and for the one who has learned this, love fulfills the purpose of religion, ethics, and philosophy, and the lover is raised above all diversities of faiths and beliefs.
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I have met many people, and everyone's impression of me is based on my career.
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A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).
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If somebody thinks wearing pretty dresses onstage somehow discredits us that's pretty absurd.
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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
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Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.
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Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.
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It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.
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He was like a fireman of intellectual life, rescuing frail forgotten thinkers from the burning building of time.
