Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.
Patrick deWitt
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St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
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When I'm not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden.
Andre Rieu
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I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
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No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.
R. C. Sproul
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Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.
Idries Shah
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Loveless moments are to be avoided.
Yusef Lateef
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Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.
A. J. P. Taylor
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So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
Andy Grove
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That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.
Alan Parsons
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I've subsequently become conscious of MAKING MEMORIES. Which makes me sound like a scrapbooker.
Heidi Julavits
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Asanas penetrate deep into each layer of the body and ultimately into the consciousness itself.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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I'm not afraid of failure; I'm afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.
William Carey
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Cristina Eisenberg weaves her observations as a scientist and her personal experiences afield into a resonant account about the web of life that links humans to the natural world. Grounded in best science, inspired by her intimate knowledge of the wolves she studies, she offers us a luminous portrait of the ecological relationships that are essential for our well-being in a rapidly changing world. The Wolf's Tooth calls for a conservation vision that involves rewilding the earth and honoring all our relations.
Brenda Peterson
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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
Carson McCullers
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Cities are the abyss of the human species.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau