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• Sampling out corruption is a very tough job, but I say so in all seriousness that we would be failing in our duty if we do not tackle this problem seriously and with determination.

  Lal Bahadur Shastri

  Determination, Jobs, Would Be

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• I'm worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don't appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and the evil of the enemy that faces us -more evil or as evil as Nazism and probably more dangerous than the Soviet communists we fought during the long Cold War.

  Joe Lieberman

  War, Long, People

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• God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like a flame and make big shadows I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don't let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me your hand.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Country, Moving, Night

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• We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who do, who take them with utter sober seriousness, the utter sober seriousness of right-wing parsons and political saviors, the owners of Pomeranians, are the liars who want to be believed, the novelists and poets, who know that the creatures they imagine have no other being than the sounding syllables which the reader will speak into his own weary and distracted head. There are no magic words. To say the words is magical enough.

  William H. Gass

  Liars, Mean, Wings

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• Give up the awful disease that is creeping into our national blood, that idea of ridiculing everything, that loss of seriousness. Give that up. Be strong and have this Shraddha, and everything else is bound to follow.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Strong, Giving Up

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1227, Manonmani Publishers

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• Let's not underestimate the seriousness of the challenge. We have a deeply divided party. We have a deeply divided country.

  Stephen Crabb

  Country, Party, Challenges

  "Brexit: Crabb and Fox out of Tory race after May wins first round of voting - As it happened" by Andrew Sparrow, Claire Phipps and Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2016.

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• I certainly don't see the humour in my work as something that detracts from its seriousness. It's just a way of making difficult messages more palatable.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Way, Messages, Humour

  "Interview with Patricia Piccinini and Peter Hennessey". Interview With Daniel Palmer, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2001.

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• [John] Hughes was well aware that to ignore the seriousness of young people is to encourage things like Columbine, so you might want to listen. And we were all pretty serious, a little bit, in high school. Some a little more than others.

  Judd Nelson

  School, People, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I first came to New York, in the '70s, artists were certainly divided about the Andy Warhol persona, and about the work. I thought it was utterly cool - I thought the Factory was utterly glamorous - but there were a lot of artists I really admired and respected who were older that kind of dismissed it, couldn't get it, and felt that there was a lack of seriousness about it.

  Laurie Simmons

  Artist, Kind, Warhol

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think there's an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people have allowed themselves the luxury of it.

  Leonard Cohen

  Thinking, Luxury, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do think that it's really important for leaders of countries to be very clear and careful in the statements they make because their words are weighed extremely carefully by other countries, and you have to create a continuity of seriousness and of credibility in order to be able to be taken seriously and get things done.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Taken, Thinking

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I think Donald Trump should be delegitimized for many reasons. And his response to this hacking is also cause for delegitimization. But to say we should move on, when the bedrock of American democracy, the sanctity of our elections, has been messed with, just raises suspicions. His denial of it happening or its seriousness shows that there is something really amiss from his end of it.

  David Corn

  Moving, Thinking, Democracy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you are not serious, people will sense it.

  Bela Lugosi

  People, Serious, Ifs

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• A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Creativity, Ideas, Imagination

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• Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Soul, Disease

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• Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Laughing, Littles

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• Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Strength, Running, Business

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Clinton Walker Keyes (1992). “Cicero in Twenty-eight Volumes: Cato Maior de Senectute. Laelius de Amicitia. De Divinatione”

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• Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Real, Writing, Two

  "By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades".

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• Another hard thing that Gord Downie makes easy: singing ironically. If you don't do it right, you come off like a snarky asshole or the whole thing just falls apart on its own. He has the ability to imbue something ironic with great seriousness, which is the only way to really make it work.

  Steve Berlin

  Fall, Ironic, Singing

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Beneath the surface of repartee and mock seriousness, [Plato's Phaedrus] is asking whether we ought to prefer a neuter form of speech to the kind which is ever getting us aroused over things and provoking an expense of spirit.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Plato, Asking, Speech

  Richard M. Weaver (1985). “The Ethics of Rhetoric”, p.5, Psychology Press

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• It would be more in keeping with the intention of the noblest man in this world if our two Christian churches, instead of annoying Negroes with missions which they neither desire nor understand, would kindly, but in all seriousness, teach our European humanity that where parents are not healthy it is a deed pleasing to God to take pity on a poor little healthy orphan child and give him father and mother, than themselves to give birth to a sick child who will only bring unhappiness and suffering on himself and the rest of the world.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Mother, Religious

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• And that works for me. So that if this is it, you better take it at its right proportion. That there are serious things, but most things are temporal and ephemeral, and you should cultivate that attitude. That joy and love and all the verities are what counts. So I try not to take too many things seriously, and if I find myself caught up in the seriousness of the moment, within a period of time, I'm able to cajole myself out of it.

  William Shatner

  Attitude, Struggle, Joy

  "How William Shatner Changed the World". Documentary, Sci-Fi, 2005.

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• In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill of an acrobat - walking a tightrope over memory and speculation, instinct and theory, feeling and denial.

  Judith Perelman Rossner

  Art, Memories, Discovery

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• Our generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history.

  Newt Gingrich

  Our Generation, Generations, Purpose

  Source: patch.com

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• You know of the disease in Central Africa called sleeping sickness. . . . There also exists a sleeping sickness of the soul. Its most dangerous aspect is that one is unaware of its coming. That is why you have to be careful. As soon as you notice the slightest sign of indifference, the moment you become aware of the loss of a certain seriousness, of longing, of enthusiasm and zest, take it as a warning. You should realize your soul suffers if you live superficially.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Sleep, Loss, Zest

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.80, Ardent Media

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