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“What the English call "comfortable" is something endless and inexhaustible. Every condition of comfort reveals in turn its discomfort, and these discoveries go on for ever. Hence the new want is not so much a want of those who have it directly, but is created by those who hope to make profit from it.”

Want Turns Conditions Goes On Comfort Comfortable Discovery Profit Endless Discomfort

Book:Philosophy of right

Source: Philosophy of right

“The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself into will, to application of itself, to pure practice. The realists felt the need and supplied it, though in a most miserable way, by cultivating idea-less and fettered "practical men." Most college students are living examples of this sad turn of events. Trained in the most excellent manner, they go on training; drilled they continue drilling.”

Source: The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism

“The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being.”

World Seems Turns Goes On Unbearable Lightness Unbearable Lightness Of Being Unbearable Lightness

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something impersonally valuable to the community in which she lived, but it was not that power, and could not be regarded as an end in itself. Nor, even, were children ends in themselves; it was useless to go on producing human beings merely in order that they, in their sequence, might produce others, and never turn from this business of continuous procreation to the accomplishment of some definite and lasting piece of work.”

Source: Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study Of The Years 1900-1925

“I am familiar with what goes on in the Arab countries, and I'm sad to say that most of us want to annihilate Israel. We want to kill all the Israelis... Do you know what they used to say in the mosques in Egypt? "We want to go to the White House and turn it into the Islamic House..." We call upon the Arab countries to stop teaching hatred to the Arab children.”

Knows Want Children Country Used Turns House White Teaching Goes On Hatred Israel Familiar Islamic White House Do You Know Egypt Mosques I'm Sad

Author:Nonie Darwish

“If I am going up a ladder, and a dog begins to bite at my ankles, I can do one of two things - either turn round and kick out at the it, or simply go on up the ladder. I prefer to go up the ladder!”

Ifs I Can Two Turns Can Do Challenges Dog Goes On Rounds Kicks Two Things Bites Ladders Ankles

Book:HER LIFE AND WORK

Source: HER LIFE AND WORK

“If you choose to turn your back, you don't really have a say in what goes on behind it.”

Ifs Turns Behinds Ignorance Goes On You Choose

Author:Gwethalyn Graham

“New York is where it is going to begin, I think. You can see it coming. The insect experts have learned how it works with locusts. Until locust population reaches a certain density, they all act like any grasshoppers. When the critical point is reached, they turn savage and swarm, and try to eat the world. We're nearing a critical point. One day soon two strangers will bump into each other at high noon in the middle of New York. But this time they won't snarl and go on. They will stop and stare and then leap at each others”

Thinking World Trying Two Certain Turns Middle New York Goes On One Day Population Stranger Critical Staring Experts Leap Savages Insects Noon Bumps Density Swarms Grasshoppers

Author:John D. MacDonald

“The stock market's handling of new technology is kind of a joke. We have seen CNBC, CNNfn, Bloomberg, and the like turn into home-shopping networks for stocks. Fund managers and analysts go on TV and sell what's shiny and easy to sell.”

Kind Home Turns Easy Technology Tvs Goes On Jokes Sells Managers Fund Shopping New Technology Analysts

Author:Mark Cuban

“Go on, now, go. Walk out the door. Just turn around now, 'cause you're not welcome anymore. Weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with 'goodbye?' Did you think I'd crumble? Did you think I'd lay down and die? I will survive.”

Thinking Dies Turns Causes Hurt Walks Doors Goes On Down And Lays Welcome Goodbye Hurt Me

Author:Gloria Gaynor

“The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay ... More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us.”

Art Poetry Turns Race Destiny Mankind Goes On Worthy Poetry Is Immense Console Time Goes On

Book:Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold

Source: Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold

“When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.”

Enough Turns Century Goes On One Day Tradition

Author:Chinua Achebe

“A sort of moral blackmail is exerted from both poles. The underclass, one gathers, should be dulled with charity and welfare provision lest it turn nasty. The upper class must likewise be conciliated by vast handouts, lest it lose the "incentive" to go on generating wealth.”

Should Turns Loses Wealth Moral Class Goes On Charity Welfare Nasty Incentives Provision Upper Class Blackmail Handouts

Book:Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports

Source: Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports