Gross Quotes - Page 15

• Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies.

  Robert Browning

  Lying, Teaching, Errors

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.72, Pearson Education

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• Even though Hubbard is dead, his business still repeats his lies, ... and in my opinion the proposed Act should also punish businesses and organizations that repeat such falsehoods. It is a gross insult to American men and women who have actually been wounded and who have actually earned the medals and awards that frauds and con-artists falsely claim.

  David Rice

  Lying, Artist, Men

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• The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile.

  Robert Kennedy

  Worthwhile, Products

  "Bobby Kennedy on GDP: 'measures everything except that which is worthwhile'" by Simon Rogers, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2012.

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• Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavoury as gross sensuality.

  Carl Jung

  Spirit, Sensuality, Memories Dreams Reflections

  "The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality".

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• For black politicians, civil rights organizations and white liberals to support the racist practices of the University of Michigan amounts to no less than a gross betrayal of the civil rights principles of our historic struggle from slavery to the final guarantee of constitutional rights to all Americans. Indeed, it was practices like those of the University of Michigan, but against blacks, that were the focal point of much of the civil rights movement.

  Walter E. Williams

  Betrayal, Struggle, Rights

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• People forget that stereotypes aren’t bad because they are always untrue. Stereotypes are bad because they are not always true. If we allow ourselves to judge another based on a stereotype, we have allowed a gross generalization to replace our own thinking.

  George Takei

  Thinking, People, Judging

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• Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Attitude, Hate, Shadow

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• The gross size of our talent inventories is less important than the net use of our talents?

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Important, Use, Inventory

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• I'm such a fitness freak that I eat so plain, it's gross. I have oatmeal in the morning and then I have chicken breasts and vegetables and spinach shakes.

  Jason Sellards

  Morning, Vegetables, Oatmeal

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• First I took a crap on the hooker's chest, then I told her I'd pay her a thousand dollars to eat it. She was addicted to crack, so of course she did it. It was so gross, though, it made her throw up, so I said I'd pay her another thousand to lick all that up, too. She started to, but for some reason she started crying as she was doing it, saying, 'I went to college! I have a degree!' Oh man, it was hilarious. I don't know if it was technically sex because I just beat off on her face, but definitely one of my most intense orgasms.

  Zach Braff

  Sex, College, Men

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• Yes, over the centuries economic progress has reduced some gross disparities - modern Americans are relatively unlikely to simply starve to death (though it can happen), so in that sense the gap between rich and poor has narrowed. But the question isn't whether society is, in some sense, more equal than it was in 1900. It's whether it is radically more unequal than it was in 1970. And of course it is.

  Paul Krugman

  Justice, Progress, Gaps

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• Everything is optional.
  Somethings are illegal.
  And some things are really gross.

  Craig Benzine

  Illegal, Optional

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• The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles in all fields of vice. Its justification by logical method as well as by precepts and examples only makes vice more horrible in effect, both for degenerate and normal beings

  Iwan Bloch

  Vices, Principles, Example

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• God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink, exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest revival meetings in history, we are still faced with gross corruption in every nation, as well as with the most prayerless church age since Pentecost.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Writing, Years, Rivers

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• I mean, really: He called me 33 percent lesbian, which was a gross underestimation of my lesbian-ness.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Mean, Lgbt, Percent

  "Reese Witherspoon Says Robert Pattinson Underestimated Her 'Lesbian-Ness'" by Kara Warner, www.mtv.com. June 6, 2011.

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• Today, refuse to see yourself as a recipient of negative vibrations or as a victim of subtle or gross influence around you. Practice broadcasting the high vibrations of your inner radiance remembering all the while that the place upon which you stand is holy simply because you are standing there.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Practice, Radiance

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• As political theorist Michael Parenti points out, historians often overlook Fascism's economic agenda--the partnership between Big Capital and Big Government--in their analysis of its authoritarian social program. Indeed, according to Bertram Gross in his startlingly prescient Friendly Fascism (1980), it is possible to achieve fascist goals within an ostensibly democratic society.

  Richard Heinberg

  Government, Goal, Political

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• Even though . . . 9/11 happened because . . . Bush's FBI and CIA did not detect the Al Qaeda conspiracy . . . , Bush not only failed to apologize to the nation or the victims' survivors, he demonstrated his total lack of leadership by refusing to fire or even criticize those in these agencies who, like Bush, let this nation down. As in private life, to stimulate excellence, good performances have to be rewarded and gross negligence and incompetence punished.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Fire, Agency, Political

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• Whenever I think about the budgetary problems, I think about the problems of Errol Flynn ... reconciling net income with gross habits.

  Malcolm Rifkind

  Business, Thinking, Income

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• If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.

  Victor Papanek

  Independent, Design, Responsible

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• You know, for a long time being a heavily tattooed woman was viewed as something gross, or you're either a criminal or a drug addict. It feels good to be a good representation of the art form versus being the token tattoo girl. I'm just glad that people even consider it to be sexy, because I think I'm just a big nerd so it works out.

  Kat Von D

  Tattoo, Girl, Sexy

  Interview with Shawn Loeffler, www.askmen.com.

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• Wonder is a very subtle, precious emotion, often lost in the gross hustle and bustle of modern life. When we feel wonder, we are immediately reminded of the purity and innocence of our childhood. Then, everything was magical and mysterious. Magic should help us relive that wonder.

  Doug Henning

  Purity And Innocence, Hustle And Bustle, Childhood

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• Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived and has seldom been disappointed.

  Henry Mackenzie

  Monsters, Mankind, Deceived

  Henry Mackenzie (1854). “The Miscellaneous Works of Henry Mackenzie ...”, p.41

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• Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one another; and may not bodies receive much of their activity from the particles of light which enter into their composition? The changing of bodies into light, and light into bodies, is very conformable to the course of Nature, which seems delighted with transmutations.

  Isaac Newton

  Light, Body, May

  'Opticks' (1730 ed.) bk. 3, pt. 1, qu. 30

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• I don't think there's anything innately erotic about pigs. But, generally, they are sweet, shy, mysterious creatures. Especially the little ones. When they get big, they get kinda gross

  Kim Deal

  Sweet, Thinking, Pigs

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