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substance body self-destruction
The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation. Norman O. Brown
substance gimlets individual
Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet . Marcus Aurelius
substance way hinduism
Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere. Mahatma Gandhi
substance words
They got the words right and the substance wrong, ... I'm very disappointed. Nell Minow
substance source concerned
We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance. Diane Wakoski
substance literature lilies
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. Edith Wharton
substance degradation recycling
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced. Barry Commoner
substance public-opinion culture
Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'. Friedrich Nietzsche
substance should deny
I do not deny the existence of material substance merely because I have no notion of it, but because the notion of it is inconsistent, or in other words, because it is repugnant that there should be a notion of it. George Berkeley
public-opinion opinion ministers
No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion. Robert Peel
public-opinion looks demand
From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment. Johan Huizinga
public-opinion opinion
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing Henrik Ibsen
public-opinion opinion weak
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. Henry Ward Beecher
public-opinion opinion superpower
The only remaining superpower is international public opinion. Simon Anholt
public-opinion states form
Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavored and colored, and put into cans. H. L. Mencken
public-opinion opinion indolence
What is public opinion? It is private indolence. Georg Brandes
cultures literacy music origins poetry remembers tribal word
There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music. Edward Hirsch
culture world urban
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system. Salman Rushdie
culture protect norm
When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself. Robert M. Pirsig
culture tissues centre
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture. Roland Barthes
culture levels grassroots
I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on. Robin McKinley
culture sometimes wonder
I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits? Rebecca Solnit
culture photographer common
I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture. Sam Abell
culture threat
Change is no threat to culture. Wade Davis
culture ends
The end of culture is right living W. Somerset Maugham