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utopian quickness
Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have. Denise Levertov
utopia premature
Utopias are often just premature truths. Alphonse de Lamartine
utopia absurd should
To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should never be established in it. Adam Smith
utopia trails cycles
Cycle trails will abound in Utopia. H. G. Wells
utopia oneself knows
To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia. Michael Novak
utopia abstract fulfilled
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. Theodor Adorno
utopia
No Utopia is Utopia for everyone Karen Joy Fowler
absurd act ideal love none nonsense notion values written
Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive. Nathaniel Branden
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The absurdity of its illegality has been clear to me for some time. I learned about pot from my kids and realized it was a lot better than Scotch, and I loved the Scotch. Then I went to my doctor, and he said, 'I'm thrilled. You're drinking too much. You're much better off doing pot than drinking.' George Soros
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The absurdity of a religious practice may be clearly demonstrated without lessening the numbers of people who indulge in it Anatole France
absurd attention campaign desperate divert issues leadership matter merely photo smear
The allegations are completely untrue, and dredging up a photo from when I was 22 years old is pretty desperate stuff. This is merely part of an absurd smear campaign to divert attention from the issues that matter in this leadership contest. George Osborne
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The actor's comments could conceivably end up getting someone killed. Mr. Cruise's advice was not only dangerous, but also absurd and wrong. It is our hope and prayer that anyone who has been talked out of acquiring life-saving health care by Mr. Cruise reevaluate Mr. Cruise's ill-informed advice and go back to treatment. Life and health are too precious to risk by taking the medical advice of a uneducated movie actor. David Rice
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often become the height of wisdom in another Adlai E. Stevenson
absurd honest
I thought it was absurd to take all this music. But it's a really honest film. Kevin Drew
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The notion that moving toward renewable energy will kill jobs is an absurdity on its face. The notion that we have to live smaller lifestyles; not have the American way of life or give up the American Dream is just ridiculous. It is the opposite of the case; a new energy paradigm will create opportunity. Marshall Herskovitz
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Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist.
should-have perfect firsts
When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch. C. S. Lewis
should-have names space
All families have their secrets, most people would never know them, but they know there are spaces, gaps where the answers should be, where someone should have sat, where someone used to be. A name that is never uttered, or uttered just once and never again. We all have our secrets. Cecelia Ahern
should bad-things
You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good. Bette Davis
should-have racism prejudice
It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business. Bernadette Devlin
should-have ideas leisure
The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. Bertrand Russell
should-have cracks citizens
The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens. William Shakespeare
should should-i
I waited a second. Should I? No... but I will. Jay Asher
shoulder wheel wish work
If you have ambitions, dream of what you wish to accomplish, and then put your shoulder to the wheel and work. Heber J. Grant
should-have years able
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better. Ezra Pound