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• An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Character, Ideas, Age

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• It's nice to have material things but they're very superficial aren't they?

  Mark Addy

  Nice, Materials, Material Things

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

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• The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the creative is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.

  May Sarton

  War, Moving, Power

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.96, Open Road Media

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• It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

  Oscar Wilde

  Nature, Character, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.14, Penguin

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• An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an animal in appropriate tissue culture fluid, and when we add an antigen, the lymphocytes will produce specific antibody molecules, in the absense of any nerve cells. I find it astonishing that the immune system embodies a degree of complexity which suggests some more or less superficial though striking analogies with human language, and that this cognitive system has evolved and functions without assistance of the brain.

  Niels Kaj Jerne

  Animal, Cells, Brain

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• It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

  Ezra Pound

  Fear, Writing, Optimistic

  Ezra Pound (2003). “Poems and Translations”

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• In the past, when people criticized me for asking unexpected questions, I felt ashamed. Now I realize that normal people are acting in a superficial and often false manner. So rather than let them make me feel bad, I express my annoyance. It's my way of trying to strike a blow for logic and rationality.

  John Elder Robison

  Blow, Past, People

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• Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silence. the spoken word is a gesture, and its meaning, a world.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Men, Views, Long

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.214, Psychology Press

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• The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Relationship, Change

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• The more one makes spiritual advancement, one feels humble and as one's devotion is superficial that much he feels that he is a great devotee.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Humility, Humble

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• The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.

  Albert Einstein

  Luxury, Effort, Possession

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• We consume everything like potato chips. In this environment, I suspect the cartoonist's connection with readers is likely to be superficial and fleeting, unless he taps into some fervent special interest niche. And that audience, almost by definition, will be tiny.

  Bill Watterson

  Special, Connections, Fleeting

  Source: library.osu.edu

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• A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

  Thomas Paine

  Pain, Thinking, Long

  Thomas Paine “Annotated Common Sense with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Paine (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable.

  Theodore Zeldin

  People, Way, Reputation

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• I wouldn't want to be 20 now. I know so much more, and I'm much more comfortable in my skin, saggy as it is When I hear young girls complaining about superficial things You're at the peak of your physical beauty right now! Just enjoy it and stop worrying about your thighs being too big If you're upset with how you look at 25, life's going to be tough

  Susan Sarandon

  Girl, Superficial Things, Worry

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• You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion....But I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity.

  Sofia Coppola

  Fashion, Silly, Thinking

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

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• Pretty is a self-serving situation in which it's all about you. People who are pretty are superficial, but they are not beautiful. Beauty requires more depth.

  Diane Keaton

  Beautiful, Self, People

  "Diane Keaton on Woody Allen's feet, Al Pacino's nose" by Bob Minzesheimer, www.usatoday.com. April 28, 2014.

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• Evil is a superficial manifestation of a deep disturbance and imbalance in our collective psyche. The only way for us to help heal the wounds is to be sober, sane, quiet, loving, and attentive to each other.

  Deepak Chopra

  Evil, Imbalance, Way

  "Deepak Chopra: Spiritual healing during times of crisis". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2001.

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• Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not about patting one another on the back and turning a blind eye to the wrong. True reconciliation exposes the awfulness, the abuse, the hurt, the truth. It could even sometimes make things worse. It is a risky undertaking but in the end it is worthwhile, because in the end only an honest confrontation with reality can bring real healing. Superficial reconciliation can bring only superficial healing.

  Desmond Tutu

  Hurt, Real, Healing

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• A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

  Steven Erikson

  Dream, Stories, Ease

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• The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.

  Lincoln Kirstein

  Liars, Candid Camera, Cameras

  Lincoln Kirstein (2012). “Walker Evans: American Photographs: Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Edition”, The Museum of Modern Art

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• I am totally superficial, I know. But I believe superficiality can be very serious, a defense against the gravity of things, a manner of discretion.

  Jeanloup Sieff

  Believe, Serious, Defense

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• Profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason, and it is the superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief.

  Humphry Davy

  Thinking, Profound, Mind

  Sir Humphry Davy, J. D., John DAVY (M.D., F.R.S.) (1851). “Salmonia: or, Days of fly fishing ... By an Angler i.e. Sir Humphry Davy . Third edition. With plates”, p.168

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• A revolution that leaves our conceptualization of self and world intact cannot bring other than temporary, superficial change. Only a much deeper revolution, a reconceiving of who we are, can reverse the crises of our age.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Self, Age, World

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self”, p.247, North Atlantic Books

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• Superficial people find the extraordinary fascinating, and profound people find the ordinary riveting.

  Julian Barbour

  People, Profound, Ordinary

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