"Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt."

Cowper, William on glory
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"Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts."

Lincoln, Abraham on respectability
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"I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing."

Hackett, Buddy on grudge   

"Home is the place where we are treated the best, but grumble the most."

Unknown, Source on home
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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

Eliot, George on adversity
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"Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability."

Shaw, George Bernard on travel   

"Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?"

Shakespeare, William on music   

"The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy."

Hazlitt, William on hypocrisy   

"Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past."

Adair, Gilbert on modern and modernism   

"Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure."

Lebowitz, Fran on opinions
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"Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide; And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory has been but a burden they scarce might abide."

Morris, William on riches   

"Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and learning."

Harrison, Jane on marriage
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"When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward -- or go back. He who now talks about the freedom of the press goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism."

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich on freedom   

"A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it."

Russell, Bertrand on illusion
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"Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition."

Bronte, Charlotte on feelings
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"Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequality, only fragments, never conflict."

Wilson, Elizabeth on modern and modernism   

"Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men."

Lippmann, Walter on purpose
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"But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots."

Bunting, Basil on government   

"Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is."

Kempis, Thomas on adversity
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"I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling."

Melville, Herman on fellowship   

"When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do."

Hendrix, Jimi on death
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"A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more."

Shakespeare, William on futility
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"To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it."

Augustine, St. on sin
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"You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable."

Eliot, George on eloquence   

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."

Einstein, Albert on religion
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"No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life."

Freud, Sigmund on babies
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"The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on women   

"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism."

Churchill, Winston on ideals and idealism
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"Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life."

Plutarch on praise   

"A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

Adams, Douglas on trying
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"Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us."

Brooks, Van Wyck on ancestry   

"Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood."

Gandhi, Mahatma on vow
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"Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict."

Alinsky, Saul on change
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"Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show."

Brice, Fanny on frigidity
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"From the outset, the Christian was the theorizing Jew, the Jew is therefore the practical Christian, and the practical Christian has become a Jew again."

Marx, Karl on judaism and jews   

"On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects."

Marx, Karl on intelligence and intellectuals   

"I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles."

Marx, Karl on isolation   

"Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents."

Marx, Karl on industry   

"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."

Marx, Karl on individuality   

"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."

Marx, Karl on history and historians
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