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“It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end.”

Ends Sides Taken Duty Curious Officials Divides

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“As the acceptance of democracy brings a certain life-giving power, so it has its own sanctions and comforts. Perhaps the most obvious one is the curious sense which comes to us from time to time, that we belong to the whole, that a certain basic well being can never be taken away from us whatever the turn of fortune.”

Giving Wells Whole Certain Turns Democracy Taken Acceptance Comfort Fortune Obvious Curious Well Being Sanctions

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers assumed by others; and in those regions of darkness and ignorance where man cannot effect even those things that are within the power of man, there we shall ever find that a blind belief in feats that are far beyond those powers has taken the deepest root in the minds of the deceived, and produced the richest harvest to the knavery of the deceiver.”

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Good will, that curious product of consciousness, of leisure and energy to spare and share. That thing we put out against the forces of interest. That extra thing. Religions and nations and political parties have taken it and used it as coinage, have said you must only give it in exchange for value.”

Giving Said Political Used Values Energy Force Nations Interest Party Consciousness Taken Share Products Curious Extras Leisure Spares Political Parties Good Will

Book:A Girl Must Live: Stories and Poems

Source: A Girl Must Live: Stories and Poems

“The reptiles had taken over the city. Once again they were the dominant form of life. Looking up at the ancient impassive faces, Kerans could understand the curious fear they roused, rekindling archaic memories of the terrifying jungles of the Paleocene, when the reptiles had gone down before the emergent mammals, and sense the implacable hatred one zoological class feels towards another that usurps it.”

Feels Faces Form Memories Animal Cities Class Gone Taken Hatred Ancient Curious Dominant Jungle Mammals Reptiles

Book:The Drowned World and the Wind From Nowhere

Source: The Drowned World and the Wind From Nowhere

“It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one would perceive the path taken by the mind in order to put its dreams into a concrete form. But what is really very curious is to observe that fundamentally the picture does not change, that despite appearances the initial vision remains almost intact.”

Mind Mean Doe Dream Would Be Form Order Vision Path Taken Records Stage Remains Photograph Appearance Despite Curious Perceive Concrete Initials Metamorphosis

Author:Pablo Picasso

“A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.”

People Feels Moral Taken Concern Responsible Curious Reversal

Author:Theodore Dalrymple