Leo Strauss Quotes
Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.
Leo Strauss
Quotes to Explore
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
W. H. Auden
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
Felix Adler
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
Larry Wilcox
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
Nate Ruess
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
Damien Rice
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
Samuel Butler
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
Sally Mann
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
Maajid Nawaz
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I think it's important that things are flawed.
Kate Bush
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
Jaclyn Smith
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I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.
Nat Turner
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I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
T. J. Miller