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• Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Divorce, Men, Class

  "Louder and Funnier". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1932.

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• Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.

  Maurice Blanchot

  People, Proud, Lovers

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• The world is a great stage on which God displays his many wonders.

  Francis of Assisi

  Angel, World, Wonder

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• For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mind, Liberty, Libertarian

  Noam Chomsky (1993). “Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture”, p.114, South End Press

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• Later scientific theories are better than earlier ones for solving puzzles in the often quite different environments to which they are applied. That is not a relativist's position, and it displays the sense in which I am a convinced believer in scientific progress.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Science, Environmental, Progress

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• Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Men, Clothes

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• Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, 'deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.' I repeat, 'By anyone.'

  Pope John Paul II

  Hate, Hatred, Church

  Pope John Paul II (1995). “Spiritual Pilgrimage: Texts on Jews and Judaism, 1979-1995”, Herder & Herder

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• The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells - called neurons - lie in a tangled web that displays cognitive powers far exceeding any of the silicon machines we have built to mimic it.

  William Allman

  Beautiful, Lying, Cells

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• I'd like to have two armies: one for display with lovely guns, tanks, little soldiers, staffs, distinguished and doddering generals, and dear little regimental officers who would be deeply concerned over their general's bowel movements or their colonel's piles, an army that would be shown for a modest fee on every fairground in the country.

  Jean Larteguy

  Country, Military, Army

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• The other would be the real one, composed entirely of young enthusiasts in camouflage uniforms, who would not be put on display, but from whom impossible efforts would be demanded and to whom all sorts of tricks would be taught. That's the army in which I should like to fight.

  Jean Larteguy

  Military, Real, Fighting

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• The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.

  Carl Van Vechten

  Cat, People, Imagination

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• We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our "white mythology." Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship.

  Ihab Hassan

  Offering, Names, White

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• I'm everlastin, I can go on for days and days
  With rhyme displays that engrave deep as X-rays
  I can take a phrase that's rarely heard, FLIP IT
  Now it's a daily word

  Rakim

  Rap, Rays, Phrases

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• Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten paths; nor is there any better way to advance the proper practice of medicine than to give our minds to the discovery of the usual law of nature, by careful investigation of cases of rarer forms of disease.

  William Harvey

  Nature, Science, Practice Of Medicine

  1987 Making It Happen: Reflections on Leadership.

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• When we cling to thoughts and memories, we are clinging to what cannot be grasped. When we touch these phantoms and let them go, we may discover a space, a break in the chatter, a glimpse of open sky. This is our birthright—the wisdom with which we were born, the vast unfolding display of primordial richness, primordial openness, primordial wisdom itself. When one thought has ended and another has not yet begun, we can rest in that space.

  Pema Chodron

  Memories, Sky, Space

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• Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Should Have, Class, Gentleman

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes”, p.17

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• Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspiring, Fear, Simple

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Women, Wife, Danger

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• I'm really proud of 'Bright Lights' because I was still in the mind frame of my first album when I was putting it together, but next time I want to display something different. I don't want to be as young, immature and all about boys!

  Ellie Goulding

  Boys, Light, Mind

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.

  Baltasar Gracian

  People, Expectations, Each Day

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• No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.

  Tom Hanks

  Taken, House, Way

  "The house that Tom Hanks built" by Leah Garchik, www.sfgate.com. September 4, 2001.

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• I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.

  Carolina Herrera

  Discipline, Taught, Emotion

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• There was a whole display set up of all the X-Men paraphernalia. My wife couldn't resist telling this 5-year-old boy that I was Wolverine. The little kid looked up at me and he was staring at me.

  Hugh Jackman

  Kids, Boys, Men

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• I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Museums, Opponents, Election

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• I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Gratitude, Flower

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