Denis de Rougemont Quotes
Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.
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Confusion is the best form of communication. It's left to be unexplained.
Lesley Lawson
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I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.
Nan Fairbrother
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All that is mine by Divine Right is now released and reaches me in great avalanches of abundance, under grace in miraculous ways.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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To the confusion of our enemies.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Never is the gospel of Jesus Christ more beautiful than in times of intense need, or in times of a severe storm within us as individuals, or in times of confusion and turmoil.
Harold B. Lee
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I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting.
Anderson Cooper
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You cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose.
Ian Curtis Joy Division
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Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
Billy Joel
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I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion.
Dalai Lama
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Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind.
Dalai Lama
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Counsel for both the DNC and Clinton/Gore used those (FEC) guidelines to approve every ad to ensure strict compliance with the law. We are hopeful that once the Department has reviewed this matter fully, it will conclude that these ads were proper.
Charles Ruff
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The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussing and figuring out. We function well in a sea of unknowns. Our experience has only prepared us to deal with confusion. A programmer who denies this is probably lying, or else is densely unaware of himself.
Ellen Ullman
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-….when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say “I won’t play any longer”, and take your departure; but if you stay, stop lamenting.
Epictetus
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A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Isaac Newton
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Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.
William Arthur Ward
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Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Maggie Kuhn
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Hygiene is for people like me; I’ve reached an age where I can no longer afford to smell like myself.
Bart Yates
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Why do you think the fans like us - why they prefer our street raps over all that phony stuff out there? Because we're telling the real story of what it's like living in places like Compton. We're giving them reality. We're like reporters. We give them the truth.
Eric Lynn Wright
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All Church activities, advancements, quorums, and classes are means to the end of an exalted family.
Russell M. Nelson
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Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.
Denis de Rougemont