A Quotes
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“All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.”
“All progress is due to the unreasonable person.”
“All progress is experimental.”
Source: Practical Agitation
“All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.”
Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings
“All progress means war with society.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“All progression in spiritual things is dependent upon the attainment of humility.”
“All progression is in the relative world.”
Source: Vedanta Philosophy: Inspired Talks, Recorded by a Disciple During the Seven Weeks at Thousand Island Park
“All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.”
Source: Blood Meridian: Picador Classic
“All projects are different, but you have to treat each one of them with care. Sometimes you get to build a luxury yacht;
other times, it'll be a rowboat. You still have to make sure the thing doesn't spring a leak.”
“All promise outruns performance.”
“All promises are empty - until they are fulfilled.”
“All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.”
Source: Children of Dune
“All proofs rest on premises.”
“All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.”
“All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.”
“All propaganda must be confined to a few bare necessities and then must be expressed in a few stereotyped formulas . . . Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea upon the memory of a crowd.”
“All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.”
Source: Mein Kampf
“All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand it. Therefore, the intellectual level of the propaganda must be lower the larger the number of people who are to be influenced by it.”
“All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that.”
“All proper libraries include a trace of everlasting magic.”
Source: Fire & Ice: The Kindred Woods
“All property and all forms of wealth are produced by man's mind and labor.”
“All property is theft, except mine.”
Source: Going Postal: (Discworld Novel 33)
“All prophecy is based on a revelation from God, but always operates at a lower level of authority than that of inspired Scripture.”
“All propositions are of equal value.”
Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“All propositions which set all the truth on one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain.”
“All Protestants are Crypto-Papists,’ wrote the Russian theologian Alexis Khomiakov to an English friend in the year 1846. ‘ . . . To use the concise language of algebra, all the West knows but one datum a; whether it be preceded by the positive sign +, as with the Romanists, or with the negative − as with the Protestants, the a remains the same. Now a passage to Orthodoxy seems indeed like an apostasy from the past, from its science, creed, and life. It is rushing into a new and unknown world.’
Khomiakov, when he spoke of the datum a, had in mind the fact that western Christians, whether Free Churchmen, Anglicans, or Roman Catholics, have a common background in the past. All alike (although they may not always care to admit it) have been profoundly influenced by the same events: by the Papal centralization and the Scholasticism of the Middle Ages, by the Renaissance, by the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, and by the Enlightenment. But behind members of the Orthodox Church — Greeks, Russians, and the rest — there lies a very different background. They have known no Middle Ages (in the western sense) and have undergone no Reformations or Counter-Reformations; they have only been affected in an oblique way by the cultural and religious upheaval which transformed western Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Christians in the west, both Roman and Reformed, generally start by asking the same questions, although they may disagree about the answers. In Orthodoxy, however, it is not merely the answers that are different — the questions themselves are not the same as in the west. (p.1–2)”
Source: The Orthodox Church
“All proven loves are products of friendship.”
Source: Who Is Your Friend?: The School Of Friendship
“All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious phenomenon. This is, quite simply, an out-and-out delusion.”
“All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.”
“all public employees have larceny in their hearts or they wouldn’t be feeding at the public trough”
Source: Friday
“All public projects are mausoleums, not always in shapes, but always in cost.”
Source: The Virtue of Selfishness
“All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's economics in a nutshell.”
“All publicity is good publicity.”
“All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.”
“All publicity works upon anxiety.”
Source: Ways of Seeing
“All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
“All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.”
“All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.”
“All punk is is attitude. That's what makes it. The attitude.”
“All puny flames of intellect look bright till the sun of love rises.”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do”
“All qualified physicists, biologists, cosmologists and geologists agree, on the basis of massive, mutually corroborating evidence, that the earth's age is at least four billion years.”
“All quantification begets cessation or elimination.”
“All questions about the Self, fall away in the white light of eternity, in nirvana, because then we have awakened from the dream.”
“All questions can be answered, if one is prepared to take the trouble to find out what they are.”
Source: My Friend the Professor
“All questions have a basis in love. All answers lead to LOVE. If you can color everything in love, you have all the colors in the world.”
Source: Create and Move Forward in Life
“All questions have an answer."
Silver wondered if that was true, but there was no point asking Mrs Rokabye. Privately, Silver thought that the answer to some questions was another question.”
Source: Tanglewreck
“All questions of right to one side, I have never been able to banish the queasy inner suspicion that Israel just did not look, or feel, either permanent or sustainable. I felt this when sitting in the old Ottoman courtyards of Jerusalem, and I felt it even more when I saw the hideous 'Fort Condo' settlements that had been thrown up around the city in order to give the opposite impression. If the statelet was only based on a narrow strip of the Mediterranean littoral (god having apparently ordered Moses to lead the Jews to one of the very few parts of the region with absolutely no oil at all), that would be bad enough. But in addition, it involved roosting on top of an ever-growing population that did not welcome the newcomers.”
Source: Hitch 22: A Memoir
“All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself”
Source: The Equinox Vol. 1. No. 10.
“All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.”