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“Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown - ignotum per ignotius - that is by the name of God.”

Ifs Men Trying Stills Self God Names Arms Lays Endless Command Deception Grain Self Deception

Author:Carl Jung

“I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.”

Writing Stills Important Book Asks Pay Court Lays Loan

Author:Asne Seierstad

“Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?”

Knows Want Stills Fine Lays Titles

Author:George Thorogood

“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

“These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect, the 'good' and the 'bad,' to still the song of birds and the leaping of fish in the streams, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in soil-all this though the intended target may be only a few weeds or insects. Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called 'insecticides,' but 'biocides.'”

Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work

“With its claims to profundity, boldness and originality, thinking still limits itself provisionally to the exclusively rational and scientific. ... As soon as it lays hold of the feelings, it becomes spirit.”

Thinking Stills Feelings Spirit Limits Claims Lays Rational Originality Boldness Profundity

Book:Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

Source: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

“Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price.”

Knows Men Made Stills Soul Home Evil Pay Cities Teach Honest He Man Grew Late Lows Shame Lays Train Folks Currents Deeds Made It Pay The Price Practise Warp Villainy

Book:Antigone

Source: Antigone

“Although [in 1937] we might still hope to prevent the divisions of Europe into Fascist and anti-Fascist camps, our real affinities and interests, strategic as well as political, lay with France, a fact which some of my colleagues were most reluctant to realise.”

Wells Stills Real Facts Might Political Interest Europe Lays France Division Realising Camps Colleagues Strategic Fascists Reluctant Affinity

Book:Facing the Dictators: The Eden Memoirs

Source: Facing the Dictators: The Eden Memoirs

“Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.”

Stills Cold Lays Drowning Moaning

Author:Stevie Smith