Pure Quotes - Page 31

• If you are interested in ideas, radio is way more pure than television. You're not distracted by somebody's nose or hair or posture. You can really see how someone thinks and penetrate to the essence of who that person is.

  Terry Gross

  Thinking, Hair, Essence

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• Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Christian, Fire, Blood

  "Christian Missions: A Triangular Debate, Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York". The Monist Magazine, Volume 5, 1895.

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• The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Dog, Giving, Betray

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• What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.

  Edmund Husserl

  Reflection, Essentials, Moments

  Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.

  Edmund Husserl

  Ideas, Research, Mathematical

  Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Thinking, Feelings, Enough

  Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.missourireview.com. March 1, 1995.

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• I think objectivity is like this strange myth that people think you're supposed to achieve, but actually, the dirty little secret is that it's not attainable any more than pure justice is attainable by the courts.

  Sebastian Junger

  Dirty, Thinking, Objectivity

  "Restrepo co-directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington". Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. June 25, 2010.

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• Pleasure unparalleled, into the ocean of love we fell. Swimming in the timeless currents of pure bliss, fantasies interchanging with every kiss.

  LL Cool J

  Romantic, Ocean, Swimming

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• All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Men, Today, Opinion

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It's the real performers on the street who can hold people's attention and keep them from walking away.

  Andy Kaufman

  Song, Real, Two

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

  Emir Kusturica

  Art, Hollywood, Poison

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  Natalia Makarova

  Simple, Giving, Perfection

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?

  Victoria Moran

  Thinking, People, Parent

  Victoria Moran, Sonnet Pierce (1998). “Love Yourself Thin: The Revolutionary Spiritual Approach to Weight Loss”, Signet Book

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• But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.

  Leo Ornstein

  Art, Simple, Ends

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• For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Order, Water, Sugar

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• The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Essence, Consciousness

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.61, A&C Black

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• Threefold are those supreme births of this divine force that is in the world, they are true, they are desirable; he moves there wide-overt within the Infinite and shines pure, luminous and fulfilling.... Of that which is in mortal in mortals, and possessed of the truth, is a God and established inwardly as an energy working out in our divine powers.... Become high uplifted, O Strength, pierce all veils, manifest in as the things of the Godhead.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Moving, Work Out, Shining

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• The Jews are not a part of a vast Whole which they re-integrate in dying, but they are a Whole in themselves, defying space, time, life, and death. Can God be outside the Whole? If he exists, necessarily he confounds himself with this Whole...Thus Divinity in Judaism is contained in the exaltation of the entity represented by the Race - passionnel entity, eternal flame, it is the Divine essence. It must be preserved and perpetuated, therefore the idea of pure and impure was created.

  Kadmi Cohen

  Race, Flames, Essence

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• We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition.

  Gilbert N. Lewis

  Ions, Giving, Water

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• History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

  Irving Langmuir

  Needs, Benefits, Mankind

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• When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

  Yael Naim

  Writing, Looks, Emotion

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• Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I'm a pure American - even more than people who are born here - because I did it by choice as an adult.

  Jacques Pepin

  Religious, People, Choices

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• Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it's pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.

  Steven Rattner

  Running, Winning, Venture

  "A Sneaky Way to Deregulate" by Steven Rattner, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 3, 2013.

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• I see people as they really are from a pure point of view.

  Sun Ra

  Views, People, Point Of View

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• I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing on Wall Street. When economics is taught by pure academics, watch out.

  Mark Skousen

  Wall, Watches, Needs

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