Ultimate Quotes - Page 25

• I do explore the emotion every once in a while. I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, Goal, Creative

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• For me, the live show is sort of the ultimate expression of this journey that I've been on.

  Jonathan Coulton

  Journey, Expression, Shows

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• The New Age movement, for all the validity of its protest and the value of some of its recommendations, is in truth a very old blind alley. There is a very long history to remind us of what happens when nature is our ultimate point of reference . . . . Nature knows no ethics. There is no right and wrong in nature; the controlling realities are power and fertility.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Reality, Long, Age

  Lesslie Newbigin (1991). “Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth”

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• Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men. As far as he is concerned he wipes out the world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Loyalty, Suicide, Men

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• The change began with John Stuart Mill and the Utopians . When Mill pointed out that economics had no ultimate solution to the problem of distribution , that society might do with the fruits of its toil as it saw fit, he introduced into the mechanical calculus of the market a conflicting calculus of moral judgment.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Might, Saws, Fruit

  "The Worldly Philosophers". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter XI, Beyond the Economic Revolution, p. 307, 1953.

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• If we make this readjustment to view Homo sapiens as an ultimate in oddball rarity, and life at bacterial grade as the common expression of a universal phenomenon, then we could finally ask the truly fundamental question raised by the prospect of Martian fossils. If life originates as a general property of the material universe under certain conditions (probably often realized), then how much can the basic structure and constitution of life vary from place to independent place?

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Independent, Views, Expression

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• Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Cockroaches, Doe, Pragmatists

  Mark Kurlansky (2011). “Cod”, p.204, Random House

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• That is the ultimate power, to stare death in the face and be unafraid.

  Orson Scott Card

  Faces, Staring, Unafraid

  Orson Scott Card (2004). “The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.242, Macmillan

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• Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.

  Bertrand Russell

  Gun, Metaphysical, Ironclads

  Bertrand Russell (1994). “Philosophical Essays”, p.109, Psychology Press

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• I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in a way which was essential to the realization of Communism in the future. Regarded as a splendid attempt, without which ultimate success would have been very improbable, Bolshevism deserves the gratitude and admiration of all the progressive part of mankind.

  Bertrand Russell

  Gratitude, Believe, Men

  Bertrand Russell (1972). “Bolshevism: practice and theory”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Most men do not feel in themselves the competence required for leading their group to victory, and therefore seek out a captain who appears to possess the courage and sagacity necessary for the achievement of supremacy. Even in religion this impulse appears. Nietzsche accused Christianity of inculcating a slave-morality, but ultimate triumph was always the goal. "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

  Bertrand Russell

  Blessed, Men, Goal

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.29, Routledge

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• She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.

  George Meredith

  Sweet, Rawness, Comedy

  George Meredith (1956). “The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• The life-efficiency and adaptability of the computer must be questioned. Its judicious use depends upon the availability of its human employers quite literally to keep their own heads, not merely to scrutinize the programming but to reserve for themselves the right of ultimate decision. No automatic system can be intelligently run byautomatonsor by people who dare not assert human intuition, human autonomy, human purpose.

  Lewis Mumford

  Running, Availability, People

  1970 TheMyth of theMachine.

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• The people, the ultimate governors, must have absolute freedom of, and therefore privacy of, their individual opinions and beliefs regardless of how suspect or strange they may appear to others. Ancillary to that principle is the conclusion that an individual must also have absolute privacy over whatever information he may generate in the course of testing his opinions and beliefs.

  William O. Douglas

  People, Freedom Of Speech, Principles

  "Branzburg v. Hayes, 408 U.S. 665". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 29, 1972.

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• Does a population have informed consent when a ruling minority acts in secret to ignite a war, doing this to justify the existence of the minority's forces? ... Failure to provide full information for informed consent on such an issue represents an ultimate crime.

  Frank Herbert

  War, Issues, Secret

  "The Dosadi Experiment" by Frank Herbert, (p. 246), 1977.

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• To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will be better than the past, that our offspring, and theirs after them, will be a bit closer to an ideal society, whatever our perception of that might be... It is at those times when we feel we are contributing to that ultimate end... we feel true elation.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Intelligent, Past, Perception

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Siege of Darkness: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.15, Wizards of the Coast

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• Inquire, investigate, doubt yourself and others. To find truth, you must not cling to your convictions; if you are sure of the immediate, you will never reach the ultimate. Your idea that you were born and that you will die is absurd – both logic and experience contradict it.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ideas, Doubt, Logic

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• War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.

  Paullina Simons

  War, Lying, Men

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• Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered. When our race has reached its ultimate achievements, and the stars themselves are scattered no more widely than the seed of Adam, even then we shall still be like ants crawling on the face of the Earth. The ants have covered the world, but have they conquered it - for what do their countless colonies know of it, or of each other?

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Race, Space

  "We'll Never Conquer Space" by Arthur C. Clarke, Science Digest, June 1960.

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• Not the power to conquer others but the power to become one with others is the ultimate power.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Conquer, Ultimate Power

  "Ten Thousand Flower Flames Part 1-100" by Sri Chinmoy, (#8756, Part 88), 1979.

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• If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

  Arthur Miller

  Communication, Responsibility, Expression

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• The ultimate test ... to see the good in evil and the evil in good.

  Frank Herbert

  Evil, Tests

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• Words themselves were the ultimate barrier to revelation.

  Frank Herbert

  Revelations, Barriers

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.207, Penguin

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• I think I'm in control of what I do and what I've done. I think that's the ultimate feminine power. Do as you want.

  Pamela Anderson

  Thinking, Feminism, Done

  "Exclusive: Pamela Anderson On Beauty, "Baywatch," And Feminism". Interview with Amy Rose Spiegel, www.buzzfeed.com. April 16, 2013.

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• Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means of seeing one's imperfections and the consoling assurance of grace which makes this realization bearable. This ultimate paradox of high religion is not an invention of theologians or priests. It is constantly validated by the most searching experiences of life.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Christian, Mean, Perfection

  1934 Reflections on the End of an Era.

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