“ We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him. ”
- Edna St. Vincent Millay- Copy
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“ He who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God. ”
- Johann Kaspar Lavater- Copy
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“ Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ There is an accuracy that defeats itself by the overemphasis of details. I often say that one must permit oneself, and quite advisedly and deliberately, a certain margin of misstatement. ”
- Benjamin N. Cardozo- Copy
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“ Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic. ”
- Northrop Frye- Copy
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“ The administration is deliberately choosing a less secure technology without justification. If there were a good reason to choose that technology, then it might make sense. But there isn't. ”
- Bruce Schneier- Copy
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“ Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost... perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that little precious fragment as well. ”
- Philip K. Dick- Copy
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“ The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism. ”
- Vladimir Putin- Copy
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“ It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw. ”
- Cory Doctorow- Copy
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“ After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past. ”
- Robert MacNeil- Copy
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“ Childhood occupies the biggest part of your brain, so a lot of my memories subconsciously enter the videos I do. ”
- Michel Gondry- Copy
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“ Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life… I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life… to drive life into a corner to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or, or course, stop to kick a pedestrian who has already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never ever — on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the country — vote Republican. ”
- Barbara Ehrenreich- Copy
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“ The theater itself is so archaic and old fashioned, that it doesn't really matter to me whether it's on Avenue D or at the Helen Hayes Theater. What's the difference? It's still a very nostalgic form. Also, it means you're knowingly walking into a room where there's actors… ”
- Fran Lebowitz- Copy
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“ Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use. ”
- Carlos Castaneda- Copy
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“ TRUST: I know that you will not — deliberately or accidentally, consciously or unconsciously — take unfair advantage of me. I can put my situation at the moment, my status and self-esteem in this group, our relationship, my job, my career, even my life, in your hands with complete confidence. ”
- Douglas Murray McGregor- Copy
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“ I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free. ”
- Angelina Jolie- Copy
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“ Clowns wear a face that's painted intentionally on them so they appear to be happy or sad. What kind of mask are you wearing today? ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. ”
- Margaret Sanger- Copy
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“ Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention. ”
- Judy Garland- Copy
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“ Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. ”
- John Gunther- Copy
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“ A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries. ”
- Thomas Mann- Copy
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“ Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity. ”
- Leo Tolstoy- Copy
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“ Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average. person. ”
- Dean William R. Inge- Copy
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