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“As simplistic as this may sound, commitment is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.”

May Stills Dream Sound Common Regret Commitment Consistent Separating Common Denominator Move Mountains Awaken The Giant Within

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than by disputes the public peace disturb; For points obscure are of small use to learn, But common quiet is mankind's concern.”

Ifs Way Stills Reason Use Running Church Common Mankind Quiet Concern Hearing Doctrine Obscure Disputes Another Way Curb

Book:Dryden: Selected Poems

Source: Dryden: Selected Poems

“My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these intellectuals I was now getting to know. They were overbearing and arrogant, excessively competitive; they lacked magnanimity and often they lacked common courtesy. But they were intellectually energetic and - this particularly attracted me - they were proof against cant.”

Source: The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling

“To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth have to be elementary, simple. Good and evil, the antagonists of all great drama in some guise, must be believably personalized. The moral ideals common to all humanity must be upheld. The victories must not be too easy. Strife to test valor is still and will always be the basic ingredient of the animated tale, as of all screen entertainments.”

“Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem.”

May Stills Common Attention Virtue Draws Stones Remains Diamond Defects Gems Pebbles Sanctify

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“It's actually quite common for presidents to believe that future generations will render a verdict on their presidencies that is more lasting or definitive than the judgments of their contemporaries. The reason is that although history is certainly "an argument without end" - we're still debating many age-old questions - time does help settle others.”

Believe Doe Stills Ends Reason Helping Age President Common Generations Judgment Argument Settling Lasting Presidency Future Generation Verdict

Author:David Greenberg

“As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which is timid, in all likelihood, and fit for common people, not one which is kingly and splendid. This wisdom, such as it is, observing that human life is ever subject to all sorts of vicissitudes, forbids us to be puffed up by the good things we have, or to admire a man's felicity while there is still time for it to change.”

People Men Giving Humans Kind Stills Life Is Given Common Subjects Fit Blessing Good Things Admire Human Life Greek Moderation Observing Deities Splendid Likelihood Felicity Vicissitudes

Author:Solon

“A relatively primitive village in which there are still real feasts, common artistic shared expressions, and no literacy at all is more advanced culturally and more healthy mentally than our educated, newspaper-reading radio-listening culture.”

Stills Real Culture Reading Common Expression Listening Healthy Radio Newspapers Educated Artistic Village Primitive Literacy

Book:The Sane Society

Source: The Sane Society

“Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down when the earth sank, still stand upright so that if the sun shines from the right quarter, and the water is less muddy than common, a man, peering face downward into its depths, sees, or thinks he sees, down below him the bare top-limbs upstretching like drowned men's fingers, all coated with the mud of years and bandaged with pennons of the green lake slime.”

Ifs Thinking Men Years Stills Earth Faces Water Common Sun Mystery Tree Green Shining Fingers Depth Lakes Quarters Mud Limbs Skeletons Muddy Sun Shines Slime Cypresses Cypress Trees

Author:Irvin S. Cobb

“We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth as a biological species and stretches back over many thousand millennia... Going further back, we share a common ancestry with our fellow primates; and going still further back, we share a common ancestry with all other living creatures and plants down to the simplest microbe. The further back we go, the greater the difference from external appearances and behavior patterns which we observe today.”

“The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply.”

Art Stills Self Law Common Existence Special Areas Works Of Art Enchantment Profane

Book:Dialectic of Enlightenment

Source: Dialectic of Enlightenment