All Quotes
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Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.Dan Quayle
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950)
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950)
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.Laurens Van der Post, Venture to the Interior (1951)
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)
When the student is ready. . . the lesson appears.Gene Oliver
Every path serves a purpose.Gene Oliver
When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)