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views goal causes
Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings. Baruch Spinoza
views may next
After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot. Auguste Comte
views paris honor
I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton. Ayelet Waldman
views renaissance way
Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance. Ayn Rand
views perspective people
People who consider themselves political, who follow political developments most rigorously, are often those who view the political process with the greatest lack of perspective. Boyd Rice
views tea mountain
Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the backpack. Their bedrock is thusness, their images beauty is pellucid and new, their view without limit. The shelf of essential Zen poets for American readers grows larger with this immediately indispensable collection. Jane Hirshfield
views public-opinion currents
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.] Juvenal
views taste sides
Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste. Carter Burwell
views quality world
We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves. Alain de Botton
waste written seventies
Out of the seventy movies I've written some ten of them were not entirely waste product. Ben Hecht
wasteland waste-land i-can
I can connect Nothing with nothing T. S. Eliot
waste scarcity resources
The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. Thomas Love Peacock
waste theology wasted-life
It is better to lose your life than to waste it. John Piper
waste wasting-my-time wasted-my-time
I'm not gonna waste your time, so I wouldn't expect you to waste my time. Terrell Owens
waste arches beast
The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation. Theodore Roosevelt
waste sculpture grows
The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows. Michelangelo
waste saint has-beens
I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints. Meg Rosoff
waste pumps breaths
To waste one's breath; to pump into a sieve. Plautus
language languages
Having two languages is better than having 500, Ronald Schmelzer
language prose processors
The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor. Richard M. Nixon
language duty english-language
Duty is the sublimest work in the English language. Robert E. Lee
language pedigree nations
Languages are the pedigree of nations. Samuel Johnson
language found accents
I never found accents difficult, after learning languages. Vivien Leigh
language metaphorical humans
Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature. W. H. Auden
language seducing wounds
I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me. Roland Barthes
language difficult difficult-things
Language is a very difficult thing to put into words. Voltaire
language names truth
If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things Confucius