 The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people. Author: A. B. Yehoshua
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| As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. Author: A. C. Benson
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| I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word. Author: A. E. Housman
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| In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader. Author: A. E. van Vogt
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| Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. Author: Abraham Joshua Heschel
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| One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. Author: Abraham Maslow
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| You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over. Author: Adam Baldwin
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| Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole. Author: Adam Duritz
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| On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom. Author: Adelbert von Chamisso
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| Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless. Author: Adolf Hitler
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| It never became an act in the sense of an act. It was always, no matter where we worked, little revues. Author: Adolph Green
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| From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour. Author: Adrian Edmondson
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| There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag. Author: Adrian Edmondson
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| It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue. Author: Adrien Brody
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| You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense. Author: Aeschylus
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| There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold. Author: Ajay Naidu
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| Miss Rice talks very tough. We have gotten used to this nonsense. Miss Rice is a bit emotional about this, and we predicted that she would have a more emotional approach to this. Author: Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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| No. 1, Halliburton. Certainly, if they've overcharged they should be whacked and whacked good, but the idea that the vice president somehow is involved in this, whether they got contracts because of him, that's nonsense. Author: Al D'Amato
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| If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account. Author: Al Goldstein
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| Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard. Author: Al Lewis
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| I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense. Author: Al Purdy
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| I'm a patriot in the truest sense of the word. Author: Al Sharpton
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| In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires. Author: Alan Autry
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| I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society. Author: Alan Bates
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| If you sense there must be more, there is more. Author: Alan Cohen
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| Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want. Author: Alan Cohen
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| Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well. Author: Alan Cranston
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| I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters. Author: Alan Dean Foster
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| An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable. Author: Alan Greenspan
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| One longs for a director with a sense of imagination. Author: Alan Rickman
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| You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization. Author: Alan Rudolph
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| I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on. Author: Alan Shepard
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| You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do. Author: Alan Shepard
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| If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well. Author: Alan Thicke
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| A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. Author: Alan Watts
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| The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens. Author: Alan Watts
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| The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. Author: Alan Watts
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| In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life. Author: Albert Bandura
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| Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. Author: Albert Einstein
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| Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! Author: Albert Einstein
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| The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. Author: Albert Schweitzer
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| To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking. Author: Alcaeus
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| Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work. Author: Aldous Huxley
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| I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff. Author: Aleister Crowley
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| Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization. Author: Alex Campbell
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| I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say. Author: Alex Cox
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| Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite. Author: Alex D. Linz
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| I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect. Author: Alex Grey
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| The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give. Author: Alexander Alekhine
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| They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard. Author: Alexander Cockburn
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| Fools admire, but men of sense approve. Author: Alexander Pope
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| Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. Author: Alexander Pope
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| How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence? Author: Alexander Pope
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| Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought. Author: Alexander Pope
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| Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge. Author: Alexis Carrel
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| A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous. Author: Alfred Adler
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| Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure. Author: Alfred North Whitehead
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| Common sense is genius in homespun. Author: Alfred North Whitehead
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| Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes. Author: Algernon Sydney
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| The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama. Author: Ali MacGraw
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| I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. Author: Alice James
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| One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. Author: Alice James
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| What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading. Author: Alice James
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| Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change. Author: Alice Meynell
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| The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. Author: Alice Meynell
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| Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf. Author: Alice S. Rossi
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| When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention. Author: Allen Klein
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| Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art. Author: Alma Gluck
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| I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor. Author: Alton Brown
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| I personally believe that those who are leaders with political power over the world will be forced some day, sooner or later, to give way to common sense and the will of the people. Author: Alva Myrdal
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| Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong. Author: Alva Myrdal
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| I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality. Author: Amber Tamblyn
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| I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously. Author: Amber Tamblyn
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| My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it. Author: Amber Tamblyn
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| Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. Author: Ambrose Bierce
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| Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams. Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
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| Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man. Author: Amos Bronson Alcott
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| If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state. Author: Amos Oz
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| Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. Author: An Wang
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| The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. Author: Anais Nin
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| Some moments it feels longer, other moments it feels like it's flown by; you can't believe you've done it all that time... Overall, you have a strong sense for the full spectrum that you've sort of traveled. Author: Andre Agassi
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| No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily. Author: Andre Breton
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| Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward. Author: Andrea Thompson
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| The fact that maybe I had some success playing G'Kar doesn't guarantee me three years later that I can still do it, so I have to keep my senses alive and still be working on it. Author: Andreas Katsulas
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| If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay! Author: Andrei Platonov
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| If they don't think, people act senselessly. Author: Andrei Platonov
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| Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial. Author: Andrew Cohen
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| When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness. Author: Andrew Cohen
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| Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense. Author: Andrew Coyle Bradley
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| We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense. Author: Andrew Coyle Bradley
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| It's not so much the amount of tax we pay - it's the sense that our pocket's being picked without our knowing what's going on. Author: Andrew J. Bacevich
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| A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues. Author: Andrew Mellon
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| I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did. Author: Andrew Wiles
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| There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years. Author: Andrew Wiles
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| If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently. Author: Andrew Young
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| Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose. Author: Andy Rooney
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| I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities. Author: Angela Davis
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| It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change. Author: Angela Merkel
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| What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it. Author: Angelina Grimke
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| All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough. Author: Angelina Jolie
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