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It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.


Gregory Bateson


#answer #civilisation #conduct #first-class #how

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.


Theodore Bikel


#claim #culture #cultures #i #jewish

I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.


William Scott


#arid #aware #become #becomes #expression

Something got screwed up in terms of your priorities if you think it's more important to get rid of the dividend tax than it is to take care of 11 million kids.


David Broder


#dividend #get #got #important #kids

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.


Edwin Hubbel Chapin


#father #lies #master #pride #sin

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.


Bliss Carman


#cease #compromises #could #fact #facts

You see, I'd not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I'd got over that by this time.


Richard H. Davis


#cane #fellows #good #good place #got

I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.


Shannen Doherty


#ashley #before #done #ever #failure

And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh.


Margaret Drabble


#because #body #end #flesh #get

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.


Queen Elizabeth II


#almost #become #come #exactly #exciting






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