A Quotes
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“Anti-Semitism is the unifying element of the reconstruction of Germany.”
“Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.”
Source: Works
“Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things about smokers that used to be said about homosexuals - they pollute the environment; you don't want them around your children.”
“Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.”
“Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality.”
“Anti-Tax fetishist Grover Norquist owns a bust of Ronald Reagan, who raised taxes 11 times.”
“Anti-theism presupposes Theism”
“Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“Anti-union propaganda has been considerably more successful here [ in the U.S.] than in Europe, even among working people who would benefit [from] unions.”
“Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.”
“Anti-Zionists, last of all, exhibit a distaste for certain words. It was Thomas Hobbes who, anticipating semantics, pointed out that words are counters, not coins; that the wise man looks through them to reality. This counsel many anti-Zionists seem to have neglected. They are especially disturbed by the two nouns nationalism and commonwealth, and by the adjective political. And yet these terms on examination are not at all upsetting.”
“antibiotic: (n.) drug that requires immediate administration of probiotics.”
Source: The Angel's Dictionary
“Antibodies are just one physical way God tells you, “I want you to win this.” Amazing results are given when your mind and spirit tell Him, “I want to win this too.”
“Antichrist is Mammon's son.”
Source: The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes
“Antichrist is the pope and the Turk [Muslim] together. A beast full of life must have a body and soul. The spirit or soul of Antichrist is the pope, his flesh or body the Turk.”
“Antichrist Superstar is also about me wanting to grow up and be something that people would adore...instead I grew up and became something that people hated.”
“Anticipate beauty. Believe in miracles. Count on grace. Decide on joy. Expect peace.”
Source: Every Day Spirit: A Daybook of Wisdom, Joy and Peace
“Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.”
Source: The Wisdom of Moses Maimonides
“Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellow man, either by a considerable gift or a sum of money or by teaching him a trade or by putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and summit of charity's golden ladder.”
“Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.”
“Anticipate the miraculous splendour of everyday wonder.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid,
Force many a shining youth into the shade,
Not to redeem his time, but his estate,
And play the fool, but at the cheaper rate.”
Source: Poems ... With a sketch of his life and a vindication of his religious principles and character. Third edition, corrected and enlarged. [With a portrait.]
“Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.”
Source: Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas
“Anticipating attacks, I should like to emphasize that I do not subscribe to the myths propagated by enemies of Israel and I am not blaming Jews for anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism predates the birth of Israel. Neither Israel's policies nor the critics of those policies should be held responsible for anti-Semitism. At the same time, I do believe that attitudes toward Israel are influenced by Israel's policies, and attitudes toward the Jewish community are influenced by the pro-Israel lobby's success in suppressing divergent views.”
“Anticipating is more fun than recollecting.”
“Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?”
“Anticipating problems and figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it's productive.”
Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
“Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.”
“Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime”
Source: Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel
“Anticipating the pain of regret if the odds don't play out as expected can impel you to play your hand prematurely. This is why a plaintiff may settle for a reduced award rather than take their chances in a court.”
“Anticipation and Hope are born twins.”
“Anticipation forward points the view.”
Source: The poems & songs of Robert Burns, to which is subjoined a panegyrical ode by H. Paul
“Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.”
Source: Romance and Reality
“Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing.”
“Anticipation is making me late, it's keeping me waiting.”
“Anticipation is sometimes more exciting than actual events.”
“Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.”
Source: Burning your boats: the collected short stories
“Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.”
“Anticipation lifts the heart. Desire is created to be fulfilled - perhaps not all at once, more likely in slow stages. Isaiah uttered his prophetic words about the renewal of the natural Creation into a wilderness of spiritual barrenness and thirst. For him, and for many other Old Testament seers, the vacuum of dry indifference into which he spoke was not yet a place of fulfillment. Yet the promise of God through this human mouthpiece (and the word "promise" always holds a kind of certainty) was verdant with hope, a kind of greenness and glory. A softening of hard-heartedness, a lively expectation, would herald the coming of Messiah. And once again, in this season of Advent, the same promise for the same Anointed One is coming closer.”
“Anticipation makes pleasure more intense”
Source: An Eve Duncan Collection From Iris Johansen: Quicksand, Blood Game, Eight Days to Live, and Chasing the Night
“Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.”
“Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.”
Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Illustrated
“Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)
“Anticipation whispers through the trees, like an indrawn breath. Urging me on.”
Source: The Stolen Heir
“Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.”
Source: Talented Mr. Ripley ; Ripley under ground ; Ripley's game
“Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.”
Source: Last flight
“Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.”
“Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.”
Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion
“Anticommunist propaganda saturated our airwaves, schools, and political discourse. Despite repeated and often factitious references to the tyranny of the Red Menace, the anticommunist opinion makers never spelled out what communists actually did in the way of socioeconomic policy. This might explain why, despite decades of Red-bashing propaganda, most Americans, including many who number themselves among the political cognoscenti, still cannot offer an informed statement about the social policies of communist societies.”
Source: Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
“Antidepressant medications, you still have some depressive thoughts. Antipsychotic medications, you still have some psychotic symptoms for the vast majority of the people taking them. But it gives them a little separation, and it doesn't control his behavior as much when you have a sad feeling, difficult thought, an odd perceptual experience. We can teach people those exact skills in therapy, you get longer-term benefits and without the side effects. So don't be sold just because a commercial interest wants to sell you things.”