A Quotes
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“A people who`s primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any time.”
Source: Ten November
“A people without a heritage are easily persuaded.”
“A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river.”
“A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation.”
Source: Literary and Historical Essays
“A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.”
“A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.”
“A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless; forests which are so used that they cannot renew themselves will soon vanish, and with them all their benefits. A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood and at the same time a reservoir of water. When you help to preserve our forests or plant new ones you are acting the part of good citizens.”
“A people without history
Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern
Of timeless moments.”
“A people without memory cannot resist tyranny, and a nation without heroes cannot produce them.”
Source: An America Restored: My Reflections on the Second Founding
“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. (incorrectly attributed to Marcus Garvey)”
Source: The Negro's or Ethiopian's Contribution to Art
“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots."
- Marcus Garvey”
“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”
“A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.”
“A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.”
Source: The Roman Way to Western Civilization
“A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.”
Source: The Roman Way to Western Civilization
“A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.”
“A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.”
“A people's speech is the skin of its culture.”
Source: America as a Civilization: Culture and personality
“A people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced.”
Source: The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephoroe, Eumenides
“A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything.”
Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799
“A people’s art is the genesis of their freedom.”
“A perceived failure is really a lesson for success.”
“A perception of impossibility should never go unchallenged.”
“a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only the result of a naive faith in causality - the notion that A in the past caused B in the present, which will cause C in the future, when actually A, B, and C are all part of a pattern that can be truly understood only by opening the doors of perception and experiencing it... in this moment... this supreme moment... this Kairos.”
Source: The electric kool-aid acid test
“A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth.”
“A percepção não passa da soma dos nossos mal-entendidos.”
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
“A peregrinação mais sagrada é a peregrinação da empatia.”
Source: Monge Cientista
“a perfect balance between body, mind and soul leads to a path that goes towards success”
Source: Dreamcatcher
“A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.”
Source: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.”
“A perfect date is probably something somewhere where you can kind of communicate and talk to the person. I don't like movies as first date. I don't think that's a good idea because you don't really get to talk to the person. I think taking a walk or just having one on one time with that person is the best.”
“A perfect day for me would just be a day that goes the way I plan.”
“A perfect day that's just like doom. Own so fucking world.”
Source: Felon: Poems
“A perfect day would be to get into the car, drive out to Yosemite and go camping.”
“A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.”
“a perfect description of the “automatic cultural man”—man as confined by culture, a slave to it, who imagines that he has an identity if he pays his insurance premium, that he has control of his life if he guns his sports car or works his electric toothbrush. Today the inauthentic or immediate men are familiar types, after decades of Marxist and existentialist analysis of man’s slavery to his social system. But in Kierkegaard’s time it must have been a shock to be a modern European city-dweller and be considered a Philistine at the same time. For Kierkegaard “philistinism” was triviality, man lulled by the daily routines of his society, content with the satisfactions that it offers him: in today’s world the car, the shopping center, the two-week summer vacation. Man is protected by the secure and limited alternatives his society offers him, and if he does not look up from his path he can live out his life with a certain dull security:
Devoid of imagination, as the Philistine always is, he lives in a certain trivial province of experience as to how things go, what is possible, what usually occurs… . Philistinism tranquilizes itself in the trivial…”
Source: The Denial of Death
“A perfect, enduring friendship between a couple of freaks”
Source: Kiss at Your Own Risk
“A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.”
“A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.”
“A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear”
Source: SIR GIBBIE & DONAL GRANT: The Baronet’s Song and The Shepherd’s Castle (Adventure Classic)
“A perfect garden will never come about by itself! There is meticulous work, great talent and endless labour behind every excellent work!”
“A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man”
“A perfect historian must possess an imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative affecting and picturesque; yet he must control it so absolutely as to content himself with the materials which he finds, and to refrain from supplying deficiencies by additions of his own. He must be a profound and ingenious reasoner; yet he must possess sufficient self-command to abstain from casting his facts in the mould of his hypothesis.”
“A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.”
Source: Toward the one
“A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.”
Source: An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope. The second edition, corrected. By Joseph Warton
“A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit
With the same spirit that its author writ:
Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find
Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.”
Source: A Select Collection of Poems: Viz. An Essay on Man; An Essay on Criticism; The Messiah; &c. &c. ... To which are Prefixed, An Account of the Life of the Author
“A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every moment we are fighting actually with external nature, and if we are defeated, our life has to go. It is, for instance, a continuous struggle for food and air. If food or air fails, we die. Life is not a simple and smoothly flowing thing, but it is a compound effect. This complex struggle between something inside and the external world is what we call life. So it is clear that when this struggle ceases, there will be an end of life.”
Source: Karma Yoga
“A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength and discipline, but can also go forth alone in the solitude of the infinite sea. We ought to belong to society, to have our place in it, and yet be capable of a complete individual existence outside of it.”
Source: The Intellectual Life
“A perfect life is to observe - to realize that you have no control over the events in your life, that there are no events in your life, that there is no life.”
“A perfect love is not all about devotion and loyalty, it is understanding little tiny things.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS