“ Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. ”
- George Burns- Copy
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“ The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
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“ There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ We are truly indefatigable in providing for the needs of the body, but we starve the soul. ”
- Ellen Wood- Copy
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“ Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today. ”
- Jinato Hu- Copy
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“ Why indeed must "God" be a noun? Why not a verb — the most active and dynamic of all. ”
- Mary Daly- Copy
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“ Apparently the highest compliment our culture grants artists nowadays is to be in an ad ideally naked and purring on the hood of a new car. I have adamantly and repeatedly refused this dubious honor,... While the court can't make me active in radio, I am asking it to make me radioactive to advertisers. ”
- Tom Waits- Copy
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“ Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self. ”
- Iris Murdoch- Copy
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“ It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God. ”
- George MacDonald- Copy
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“ Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all. ”
- Mary Daly- Copy
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“ Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair. ”
- George Burns- Copy
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“ I think of myself as entrepreneurial as well, so it was inspiring to hear from someone with an entrepreneurial spirit that succeeded further down the line. ”
- Andrew White- Copy
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“ One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic. ”
- William Hull- Copy
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“ It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world. ”
- Cameron Diaz- Copy
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“ The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian. ”
- William Gurnall- Copy
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“ When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl — and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to — which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage. ”
- Queen Victoria- Copy
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“ The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will. ”
- J. Arthur Thomson- Copy
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