A Quotes
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“An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no pornographic intention or effect because "it leaves everything to the imagination." The consumer has to invent his own images, and it is felt, I do not know with what justification, that there is no harm in this.”
Source: To Hell With Culture
“An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.”
“An enormous amount of modern ingenuity is expended on finding defences for the indefensible conduct of the powerful. As I have said above, these defences generally exhibit themselves most emphatically in the form of appeals to physical science. And of all the forms in which science, or pseudo-science, has come to the rescue of the rich and stupid, there is none so singular as the singular invention of the theory of races.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar system model of the atom as though the atom were like a sun and moon and planets.”
“An enormous force bends all lines into circles.”
Source: The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality
“An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses.”
Source: Essays, Comments, and Reviews
“An enormous number of people come to the USA legally and then simply overstay their visas because we make no effort to hold them accountable to that or uphold the law.”
“An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.”
“An enormous problem with paid media, especially at the congressional level, is it all starts to look alike.”
“an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.”
Source: Not Your Usual Founding Father: Selected Readings from Benjamin Franklin
“An enormous semiofficial drug-smuggling operation was established in order to improve Britain's unfavorable balance of payments with China—the direct result of the British love of tea.”
Source: A History of the World in 6 Glasses
“An enormous smile covers her face, and she throws her little kid arms around my neck. The sensation strikes something inside of me. Something I haven't felt in a very long time. Like a warm fuzzy or some shit.”
Source: The Collector
“An enormously vast field lies between "God exists" and "there is no God." The truly wise man traverses it with great difficulty. A Russian knows one or the other of these two extremes, but is not interested in the middle ground. He usually knows nothing, or very little.”
“An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, published in 1748, the Scottish philosopher David Hume reduced the principles of association to three: resemblance, contiguity in time and place, and causality. Our concept of association has changed radically since Hume’s days, but his three principles still provide a good start.”
“An enriched capacity for rejoicing is an expanded capacity for worship.”
“An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.”
Source: What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation
“An enterprise's most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities.”
“An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives through an old decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.”
“An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.”
“An entertainer is someone who pleases others, and an artist tries to please himself. An artist is on a journey: they don't know where they're going, what is going to happen, but they know they are not there yet, and there is some continuity and growth. I think of myself as an entertainer: I'm a performing entertainer, I'm a stand-up comic. But there's an artist at work here, too. One who interprets his world through his own filter.”
“An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.”
“An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.”
“An entertainer's reputation as a live act is the most valuable thing he or she can have. If people know you give good shows, you'll never be broke for the rest of your life.”
“An entertaining must-read for any discerning traveller – Audley Traveller magazine”
Source: Turning Left Around the World
“An entertainment is something which distracts us or diverts us from the routine of daily life. It makes us for the time being forget our cares and worries; it interrupts our conscious thoughts and habits, rests our nerves and minds, though it may incidentally exhaust our bodies. Art, on the other hand, though it may divert us from the normal routine of our existence, causes us in some way or other to become conscious of that existence.”
Source: The Politics of the Unpolitical
“An enthralling blend of adventure, speculative technology, and suspense...Noordermeer whisked me away from reality and dropped me into a world of imagination with a well-paced plot.”
“An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)
“An enthusiast may bore others, but he has never a dull moment himself.”
“An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.”
Source: Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff
“An enthusiastic heart finds opportunities everywhere.”
“An enthusiastic philosopher, of whose name we are not informed, had constructed a very satisfactory theory on some subject or other, and was not a little proud of it. "But the facts, my dear fellow," said his friend, "the facts do not agree with your theory."—"Don't they?" replied the philosopher, shrugging his shoulders, "then, tant pis pour les faits;"—so much the worse for the facts!”
Source: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds
“An entire composition written in jazz could not live.”
“An entire conversation in a kiss.”
“An entire generation now regards Nirvana as its version of the Beatles. They are of course hopelessly mistaken, but I would not recommend you tell them so.”
“An entire life, lavishly colored with ecstasies and agonies, is exclusively born from the functional expression of neurochemistry. Every time that we sob in sorrow or laugh in joy, we do so, steered by a glorious storm of hormonal interplay within the deepest parts of our mind. And with each drop of tear that we shed in our times of excruciating pain, our brain constructs majestic new cellular connections to aid in the pursuit of our passion - in the pursuit of truth.”
Source: Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
“An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.”
Source: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
“An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me.”
Source: Whatever: A Novel
“An entire lifetime can change in one afternoon. The rest of the world can continue on, unaware of a quiet, solitary cataclysm occurring a few feet away.”
Source: When the Moon is Low
“An entire lifetime would not be long enough for you to exhaust the glance of the young harvest-girl.”
“An entire mythology is stored within our language.”
Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951
“An entire nation shook under the power of one man’s [MLK’s] dream! Now if one dream can do that for our nation, imagine what a dream can do for the Church.”
“An entire universe of various planets exist, embracing their own science, and they too could bear other lifeforms. It's a pity humans are too occupied in their own ventures to think about that for a second.”
Source: Creativity is Everything
“An entire wall in my home is covered with framed pictures of my family and friends. It's nice to go home after a long week of traveling for work and be reminded of memories with the people I love.”
“An entire year has passed. Time is important. This I know now. As in, how much time has to pass for a forgetting to occur.”
Source: Four Treasures of the Sky
“An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave: the best and the worst are only approximations of those qualities. Who are those that never contradict themselves? yet honesty never contradicts itself: Who are those that always contradict themselves? yet knavery is mere self-contradiction. Thus the knowledge of man determines not the things themselves, but their proportions, the quan∣tum of congruities and incongruities.”
“An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.”
“An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .”
Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
“An entity, whether a person or a thing, requires the independent collection of facts about them and a cross-referencing of these facts through their digital footprint.”
Source: SEO Help: 20 Semantic Search Steps that Will Help Your Business Grow
“An entomologist is not a bug.”
Source: Sacramental Acts: The Love Poems of Kenneth Rexroth
“An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.”