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“Narcissism and Christianity have little in common, yet the Romantic paradigm of artistic creativity, particularly in light of subsequent Freudian ideas, has tended to foster its share of narcissism. It was the tragic fate of Narcissus that he was so preoccupied with self that he could not appreciate God, nature, or the other.”

Littles Ideas Self Light Culture Common Christianity Creativity Fate Share Appreciate Artistic Tragic Narcissism Paradigm Narcissus Artistic Creativity God Nature Tragic Fate

Author:John Walford

“We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.”

Whole Able Earth Success Common Fate Diversity Brotherhood Spectacular Spaceships

Book:World Game Series: Document 1

Source: World Game Series: Document 1

“London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.”

States Home Common Fate London Paris Folly Rome Villain Thirst Needy Sewers Dregs

Book:The poetical works of Samuel Johnson: collated with the best editions

Source: The poetical works of Samuel Johnson: collated with the best editions

“It is a common fate -- a woman's lot -- To waste on one the riches of her soul, Who takes the wealth she gives him, but cannot Repay the interest, and much less the whole.”

Giving Soul Whole Women Interest Wealth Common Fate Waste Riches

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“When the time of danger comes, all Americans, whatever their social standing, whatever their creed, whatever the training they have received, no matter from what section of the country they have come, stand together as men, as Americans, and are content to face the same fate and do the same duties because fundamentally they all alike have the common purpose to serve the glorious flag of their common country.”

Men Country Matter Together Faces Purpose Social Common Fate Danger Duty Training Standing Glorious Flags Creeds Sections Common Purpose

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Certainly inside my heart I know degrees of difference. But I can't blame any of these men who share a common fate with me. The big folly of this trial is that it lacks the two men who are to blame for anything which is criminal, namely Hitler and Himmler.”

Knows Men Heart I Can Two Bigs Differences Common Fate Share My Heart Degrees Blame Criminals Trials Folly Himmler

Author:Karl Donitz

“If today there is a proper American "sphere of influence" it is this fragile sphere called earth upon which all men live and share a common fate--a sphere where our influence must be for peace and justice.”

Ifs Men Today Earth Justice Common Fate Share Influence Fragile Spheres Peace And Justice Sphere Of Influence

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has raised them above the common level. The man who submits to the shafts of envy for the sake of noble objects pursues a judicious course for his own lasting fame. Hatred dies with its object, while merit soon breaks forth in full splendor, and his glory is handed down to posterity in never-dying strains.”

Men Has Beens Dies Courses Levels Common Break Fate Dying Objects He Man Fame Glory Hatred Raised Sake Envy Noble Pursue Merit Lasting Usual Submit Strain Posterity Splendor Aversion

Author:Thucydides

“I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.”

Ifs Has Beens Would Be Suffering Common Doubt Fate Easier Succeed Misery Unhappiness Hysterical

Author:Sigmund Freud

“The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.”

Men Life Heaven Walks Common Fate Good Man Virtuous Chamber Verge Virtuous Life

Book:The poetical works of Edward Young

Source: The poetical works of Edward Young

“One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.”

Dies Common Fate Prove Envy

Book:Fables ... In one volume complete

Source: Fables ... In one volume complete

“However far apart we pull two entagled particles, they remain 'connected' through their common wavelength function. Their fates remain intertwined until a measurement is made on one of them, collapsing their common wavelength function.”

Made Two Common Fate Function Connected Particles Measurement Intertwined Wavelength

Author:Jim Al-Khalili

“The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them.”

Men Suffering Common Fate Tasks Terror Cruelty Civilized Reconcile

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“The white worker who has been displaced at General Motors has more in common with the displaced black worker than those larger white CEO's, and those Wall Street people who are determining their fate... whose thievery and greed is determining their fate.”

People Has Beens Black White Common Fate Streets Wall Workers Greed Ceo Motor General Motors Thievery

Author:Bell Hooks

“The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.”

Common Fate Europe Euro

Author:Angela Merkel

“Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination.”

May Book Beautiful Suffering Evil Common Fate Possibility Protect Graves Grants Shields Illumination Possibility Of Change

Author:Alberto Manguel

“The term bisexual has ended up as the ugly stepchild of sexuality, in both name and meaning. Its fate is symptomatic of the bisexual's own lot in life: to be as common as can be, but unacknowledged.”

Names Term Common Fate Ugly Sexuality Bisexual Stepchild

Book:Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics

Source: Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics

“Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.”

Common Fate Figures Speech Irony Ironic Figures Of Speech

Book:Shibumi: A Novel

Source: Shibumi: A Novel

“TRIAD: Three separate highways intersect at a place no reasonable person would ever want to go. Three lives that would have been cut short, if not for hasty interventions by loved ones. Or Fate. Three people, with nothing at all in common except age, proximity, and a wish to die. Three tapestries, tattered at the edges and come unwoven to reveal a single mutual thread.”

People Ifs Want Persons Has Beens Age Dies Three Wish Common Cutting Fate Edges Reasonable Mutual Loved Ones Thread Highways Intervention Tapestry Proximity Hasty Wish To Die Triads

Book:Impulse

Source: Impulse

“I cannot be known Better than you know me Your eyes in which we sleep We together Have made for my man’s gleam A better fate than for the common nights Your eyes in which I travel Have given to signs along the roads A meaning alien to the earth In your eyes who reveal to us Our endless solitude Are no longer what they thought themselves to be You cannot be known Better than I know you.”

Knows Men Made Eye Earth Together Night Given Sleep Common Known Fate Solitude Endless Aliens Be You Know Me Better Than You Gleam

Author:Paul Eluard

“We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively,sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth.... We are not going to be able to operate our spaceship earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common.”

Way Whole Able Earth Humanity Peace Common Fate Spontaneity Spaceships Ubuntu

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.”

Life Humans Change Common Destiny Fate All Things Constant Fortune Human Life Cycles Decay Unreasonable Exemption

Author:Plutarch

“Each of us must rededicate ourselves to serving the common good. We are a community. Our individual Fates are linked; our futures intertwined; and if we act in that knowledge and in that spirit together, as the Bible says: "We can move mountains."”

Ifs Together Moving Spirit Individual Community Common Fate Mountain Serving Our Future Linked Common Good Intertwined Move Mountains

Book:Jimmy Carter

Source: Jimmy Carter

“They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is the common fate of the American, whether he sails the sea in the North, gallops over the plain in the West, or sleeps in his hammock in the forests of Brazil.”

Way War Sleep Common Race Fate Sea West Forests New Ways Sail Doomed Gross Brazil Immorality Old Ways Smallpox Hammocks

Author:George Amos Dorsey

“In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.”

Firsts Kind Community Common Fate Impossible Terrorism Instance Insomnia Global Community

Author:Ulrich Beck

“It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.”

Ifs Men Given Common Liberty Break Fate Rights Conditions Crime Eternal Empathy Consequence Guilt Active Punishment Apathy Prey Servitude Vigilance Eternal Vigilance Price Of Freedom

Author:John Philpot Curran

“Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.”

May Home Today Common Fate Century Europe Links Divides Linked European Countries

Author:Leonid Brezhnev

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