Various Quotes - Page 30

• Religion holds a man back from the path, prevents his stepping forward, for various very plain reasons. First, it makes the vital mistake of distinguishing between good and evil.

  Mabel Collins

  Mistake, Men, Evil

  Mabel Collins (2012). “Light On The Path and Through the Gates of Gold”, p.139, tredition

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• What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other.

  Grace Paley

  Men, Games, Feet

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• The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.

  Jane Porter

  Anxiety, Doubt, Overcoming

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• In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can provide energy for change.

  Audre Lorde

  Order, Energy, Culture

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.53, Crossing Press

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• The caste system, in all its various forms, is always based on identifiable physical characteristics - sex, color, age.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Sex, Color, Racism

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• There is no such thing as a 'superior' or 'inferior' culture, there are only various cultural patterns which make up this beautiful, multicolored mosaic.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Beautiful, Mosaics, Culture

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• There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual.

  Barbara Pym

  Heart, Broken, Way

  Barbara Pym (2011). “No Fond Return Of Love”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• No one color can describe the various and varied complexions in our group. They range from the deep black to the fairest white with all the colors of the rainbow thrown in for good measure. When twenty or thirty of us meet, it is as hard to find three or four with the same complexion as it would be catch greased lightning in a bottle.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Color, White, Rainbow

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• Beyond the horizon, or even the knowledge, of the cities along the coast, a great, creative impulse is at work -- the only thing, after all, that gives this continent meaning and a guarantee of the future. Every Australian ought to climb up here, once in a way, and glimpse the various, manifold life of which he is a part.

  Vance Palmer

  Cities, Giving, Creative

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• In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Errors, Profound, Pieces

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe Annotated and Illustrated Entire Stories and Poems”, p.352, Bottletree Books LLC

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• The people to become enlightened in Atlantis lit the "flame of enlightenment" on earth for the first time. The members of the various mystery schools have kept the flame alive by passing on the secret techniques for attaining enlightenment from the time of Atlantis to our present day.

  Frederick Lenz

  School, Flames, Passing On

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• Once various forms were signed, I was separated from my free will, led down the corridors into a room which was now to be the boundary of my existence, told to surrender my clothes, handed that comic invention, the hospital gown, and sent to bed in broad daylight like a child being stripped of her privileges.

  Dorothy West

  Children, Clothes, Bed

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• Democracy entails a correlation between the public interest as expressed by a majority of the population and the governmental policies that affect them. The term encompasses various manifestations, including direct, participatory and representative democracy, but Governments must be responsive to people and not to special interests such as the military-industrial complex, financial bankers and transnational corporations. Democracy is inclusive and does not privilege an anthropological aristocracy.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Military, Government, People

  "Report of the Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order". United Nations General Assembly Human Rights Council, Session 24, July 01, 2013.

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• I will tell you where there is power: where the dew lies upon the hills, and the rain has moistened the roots of the various plant; where the sunshine pours steadily; where the brook runs babbling along, there is a beneficent power.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Running, Lying, Rain

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• Nowadays, it is possible to perform various forms of Low-Impact listening via the telephone. The advent of technological advances such as computer games and online services (like ones that let you check stocks) have enabled Low-Impact listeners to endure family phone calls much longer than in the past. Dangers include mouse clicks, heavy typing, or a sudden loud buzzer that goes off when you have finished Boggle.

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Past, Games, Impact

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• August Smith is a child telling the truth. Sometimes the truth is he has to listen to the voices of various creatures he's killed speak to him reproachfully, and he shares that with us, because wouldn't we all? Parties abound in this collection and reading it feels like being invited. You can tell Smith wants you there.

  Matthew Rohrer

  Children, Reading, Party

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• I do serve on various boards and I'm very honest and frank, obviously, I am a very forthright person and I do, sort of, share my candid views on anything.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Views, Boards, Honest

  "Infosys is resilient enough: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw". Interview with Harichandan Arakali, economictimes.indiatimes.com. December 23, 2013.

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• The realizations of anarchist ideas and practices are like sociopolitical ecosystems. Local versions resemble each other, but they are endlessly adaptive and everywhere different to meet their needs in their environments. Anarchism can be adapted to meet the culture, economics, ecology, and politics of various people or communities. That's the beauty of it.

  Scott Crow

  Practice, Ecosystems, Ideas

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• For me, so much of my life has been this attempt to find my way back into my body. I tried various forms, from promiscuity, to eating disorders, to performance art. And I think it wasn't until I got cancer, where I was suddenly being pricked and ported and chemoed and operated on, that I suddenly just became body. I was just a body. And it was in that, in that finally landing in myself that I really discovered the world in my body.

  Eve Ensler

  Art, Cancer, Thinking

  "In The Body of the World". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 29, 2013.

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• You probably have to split yourself in various ways just in order to survive, and to think of yourself as a multitude.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Thinking, Order, Splits

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• Question of "Where We Begin" turns to be not only a formal question but also a question central to the attempt to make sense of things about which it is very difficult to make any sense - illness, death, despair, suicides, cruelty, the various troubles love can provoke, our inability to really know one another when we our inner selves are walled off by our bodies.

  Kyle Minor

  Suicide, Self, Despair

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• I think the voice over actually enhances the various moments instead of compensating for something that's lacking. Voice over can be tricky. It can be dangerous because its over used or inappropriately used. I think in this case it informs the story.

  Claire Danes

  Thinking, Voice, Stories

  "Steve Martin and Claire Danes Talk Shopgirl". movieweb.com. October 21, 2005.

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• I'm not thinking much about overall themes or preoccupations or anything like that. Instead I'm just trusting that, if I'm working hard, various notions and riffs and motifs and so on are very naturally suffusing the stories and the resulting book.

  George Saunders

  Book, Thinking, Stories

  Source: www.nationalbook.org

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• In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another.

  Arthur Miller

  Dream, Giving, Way

  Interview With William R. Ferris, www.neh.gov. March-April 2001.

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• From youth to middle, and often to past middle, age, most men are apt to be too closely engaged in the struggle of life to pay due attention to the strength of the body. They may take daily what they consider a sufficient amount of exercise; but the exercise is not calculated to keep the various limbs and muscles, still less the internal organs, in proper working order. Amid the ordinary concerns of life the man may appear strong, even stalwart. But when occasion arises for some special muscular exercise, or taxing the action of some organ, he finds out his weakness.

  Richard A. Proctor

  Strong, Struggle, Exercise

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