“ When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
- 1.8K
“ It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not. ”
- Alfred Whitney Griswold- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. ”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein- Copy
- 309
“ We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it. ”
- Max Lerner- Copy
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“ Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile. ”
- Elie Wiesel- Copy
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“ Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Don't let your life be sterile. Be useful. Blaze a trail. Shine forth with the light of your faith and of your love. ”
- Jose Maria Pscriva- Copy
- 1.8K
“ A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; he who plants kindness, gathers love; pleasure bestowed on a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward. ”
- St. Basil- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word "academic" in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation. ”
- Myron Tribus- Copy
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“ Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief… Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist… ”
- William S. Burroughs- Copy
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“ No office anywhere on earth is so puritanical, impeccable, elegant, sterile or incorruptible as not to contain the yeast for at least one affair, probably more. You can say it couldn't happen here, but just let a yeast raiser into the place and first thing you know - bread! ”
- Helen Gurley Brown- Copy
- 2K
“ The sense of conquest is in it. Not often is a collector able to obtain complete material in one assault. The plant may be at the moment sterile, or only in fruit or flower… but this lack has the advantage of stimulating the collector to go back in another season or year to complete the work. ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
- 2.6K
“ The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. If he loves, it is not to give himself, to blend in fecund union with another being, but to meditate on his love. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile… ”
- Emile Durkheim- Copy
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“ The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual — when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions — it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. ”
- Isaac Bashevis Singer- Copy
- 976
“ No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon, Apple Valley to Boreal, New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate. ”
- Edward Dahlberg- Copy
- 4K
“ If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength. ”
- Rachel Carson- Copy
- 3.1K
“ He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle… with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination. ”
- Aneurin Bevan- Copy
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“ Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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