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• No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Women, Law, Political

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• People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Wind, People, Bars

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• When a relationship dies do we ever really give up the ghost or are we forever haunted by the spirits of relationships past?

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Giving Up, Past, Forever

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• Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act on each other in accordance with their own nature, in this way, without any direct interference in the process, carries out reason's intentions.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Powerful, Way, Reason

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• Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends.

  E. M. Forster

  Moving, Home, Giving

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.

  Euripides

  Clever, Medicine, Sick

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.118, University of Chicago Press

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• The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.

  Aldous Huxley

  Anarchy, Utopia, Wave

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• I think that theater is a unique way to communicate with people as they gather together with other people they may not even know. It creates a sense of shared community for the time of the performance that hopefully carries over into other aspects of the audience's life because they have shared this experience together.

  Pearl Cleage

  Unique, Thinking, People

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• Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature. He carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.

  George Eliot

  Wise, Lying, Reflection

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.126, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Different, Able, Language

  "Saussure's Third Course of Lectures on General Linghuistics (1910-1911)" by Ferdinand de Saussure, Pergamon Press, www.marxists.org. 1993.

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• An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Doe, Machines, Administration

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some kinds of odour well, and is kind to sound - letting it travel several times faster than air will allow, but it inhibits other more personal kinds of communication.

  Lyall Watson

  Communication, Air, Water

  "Jacobson's Organ and The Remarkable Nature Of Smell" by Lyall Watson, www.nytimes.com. 2000.

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• History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she leaves the mud which she carries and the corpses of the drowned.

  Arthur Koestler

  Goal, Mud, Flow

  Arthur Koestler (2015). “Darkness at Noon”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong by history, culture, deeds, association, and affection.

  Wendell Berry

  Technology, People, Political

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words”, p.58, Counterpoint Press

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• To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Self, Sick, Hazards

  Richard Hofstadter (2011). “The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it”, p.398, Vintage

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• God buries His workmen but carries on His work.

  Charles Wesley

  Death, Dying, Workmen

  Thomas JACKSON (Wesleyan Minister.), Charles Wesley (1848). “Memoirs of the Rev. Charles Wesley ... Being an abridgement of his Life in two volumes, octavo”, p.469

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• ... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Understanding, Violent, Destruction

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• Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of a man "who was uglier than he had any business to be;" and, if we could but read it, every human being carries his life in his face, and is good-looking or the reverse as that life has been good or evil. On our features the fine chisels of thought and emotion are eternally at work.

  Alexander Smith

  Beauty, Men, Evil

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help.

  Lionel Shriver

  Lying, Successful, World

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.175, Counterpoint Press

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• A spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above the constraints of the earth. The spacecraft carries our secret hope that there is something better out there-a world where we may someday go and leave the sorrows of the past behind. The spacecraft rises toward the heavens exactly as, in our finest moments as a nation, our hearts have risen toward justice and principle.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Inspiration, Heart, Past

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• Sometimes things come out of your mouth that you regret later on. Or no, not regret. You say something so razor-sharp that the person you say it to carries it around with them for the rest of their life.

  Herman Koch

  Regret, Razors, Mouths

  Herman Koch (2012). “The Dinner”, p.133, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Heart, Color, Brain

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1860). “The Professor at the Breakfast-table: With The Story of Iris”, p.185

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• Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and darker it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it

  Carl Jung

  Men, Personality, Doubt

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• Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sadness, Order, People

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• There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

  Jonathan Swift

  Greed, Vices, Extremes

  "The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe".

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