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• It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Doors, Innocence, Youth

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder”, p.31, Penguin UK

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• I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture and I'm going to make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world.

  Barack Obama

  America, Effort, World

  "Guantanamo Bay Still Unresolved". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 14, 2013.

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• My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].

  Gloria Estefan

  Animal, Affinity, Call Me

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• At some point I started getting published, and experienced a meager knock-kneed standing in the literary world, and I started to get almost everything that many of you graduates are hoping for--except for the money. I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled--all the things that the culture tells you, from preschool on, will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you. I got some stature, the respect of other writers, even a low-grade fame. The culture says these things will save you, as long as you also manage to keep your weight down. But the culture lies.

  Anne Lamott

  Lying, Long, Anxiety

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.303, Penguin

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• There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.

  Camille Paglia

  Spiritual, Kings, Gay

  "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality". Camille Paglia, Vamps and Tramps, 1994.

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• The definitions of humanism are many, but let us here take it to be the attitude of those men who think it an advantage to live in society, and, at that, in a complex and highly developed society, and who believe that man fulfills his nature and reaches his proper stature in this circumstance. The personal virtues which humanism cherishes are intelligence, amenity, and tolerance; the particular courage it asks for is that which is exercised in the support of these virtues. The qualities of intelligence which it chiefly prizes are modulation and flexibility.

  Lionel Trilling

  Attitude, Believe, Men

  "The Portable Matthew Arnold " by Lionel Trilling, Viking Press, 1949.

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• The taboos that constitute a man's intellectual stature, often sedimented experiences and unarticulated insights, always operate against inner impulses that he has learned to condemn, but which are so strong that only an unquestioning and unquestioned authority can hold them in check.

  Theodor Adorno

  Strong, Men, Intellectual

  "Minima Moralia". Book by Theodor W. Adorno, 1951.

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• The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the stature which the history of mankind has in the universe.

  Walter Benjamin

  Enormous, Mankind, Models

  Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt (1968). “Illuminations”, Schocken Books Incorporated

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• Being of tall stature, it's rare to get a series regular role.

  Charles Halford

  Roles, Tall, Series

  Source: collider.com

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• What made me feel empowered was the gun, not the clothes. Like if I had the gun, it didn't matter what your size was, what your stature was.

  Mila Kunis

  Gun, Clothes, Matter

  Source: movies.about.com

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• We believe that there is one economic lesson which our twentieth century experience has demonstrated conclusively-that America can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small business.... the two are interdependent. You cannot strengthen one by weakening the other, and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the legs of a giant.

  Benjamin Franklin Fairless

  Business, Believe, Cutting

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• Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

  Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

  Long, Arms, Lows

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• Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.

  Edward Young

  Fall, Men, Egypt

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• Now the basic impulse behind existentialism is optimistic, very much like the impulse behind all science. Existentialism is romanticism, and romanticism is the feeling that man is not the mere he has always taken himself for. Romanticism began as a tremendous surge of optimism about the stature of man. Its aim - like that of science - was to raise man above the muddled feelings and impulses of his everyday humanity, and to make him a god-like observer of human existence.

  Colin Wilson

  Taken, Optimistic, Men

  "Introduction to the New Existentialism". Book by Colin Wilson, p. 96, 1966.

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• Napoleon was one of the most complex personalities in history.He was ruthless, small in stature, a bully, vulnerable, unfaithful and I think he was the first person to shoot prisoners of war so that he had food for his own army. He was absolutely single-minded but he also obviously had charm. How else could a man like him have come back as he did and have the nation rise to a man!

  David Suchet

  War, Army, Men

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.

  Albert Einstein

  Teacher, Giving Up, Struggle

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.48, Broadway Books

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• If your stature were an illness, it seems that the Centipede dispenses medicine to make you well.

  Cheshire Cat

  Medicine, Illness, Wells

  "Fictional character: Cheshire Cat". Video Game "Alice", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to an adult's without harm.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Money, Children, Adults

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• Part of our business is that you read interviews with these people and they don't really talk candidly about what's going on and the struggle - the struggle to do what you love and to maintain body image and to maintain this sort of false stature of who you're supposed to be as a role model and also who you are supposed to be to yourself personally and privately.

  Amber Tamblyn

  Struggle, Role Models, Acting

  Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.believermag.com. Spring 2015.

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• To require conformity in the appreciation of sentiments or the interpretation of language, or uniformity of thought, feeling, or action, is a fundamental error in human legislation -- a madness which would be only equaled by requiring all men to possess the same countenance, the same voice or the same stature.

  Josiah Warren

  Appreciation, Men, Errors

  Josiah Warren (1849). “Equitable Commerce: A New Development of Principles for the Harmoneous Adjustment and Regulation of the Pecuniary,intellectual,and Moral Intercourse of Mankind,proposed as Elements of New Society”, p.5

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• There are times when I love to play all kinds of complicated games in painting. But this is one case when I need to be fairly straightforward. I'll just try to paint the man, his intelligence, his amiability and his stature, maybe paint him fairly close to humor and try to get it just right.

  Nelson Shanks

  Men, Games, Play

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• I do sort of feel like I'm building my monument with what I do, but it's pretty small and inconsequential compared to real works of genius like this, which are giving vast inspiration to humanity. But I guess I shouldn't even say that. It's ridiculous to say that. You are what you are. My stature suits me.

  Jim Woodring

  Real, Inspiration, Giving

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com.

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• Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of your stature.

  John Gielgud

  Bowling, Alleys, Bowling Alleys

  "Fictional character: Hobson". "Arthur", www.imdb.com. 1981.

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• There are major writers who have written books [based on my research]. If one looks carefully at the copyright page, you'll see my name. Writers of the stature of Mailer and even bigger. All over the world.

  Lawrence Schiller

  Book, Names, Looks

  Interview with Suzanne Snider, believermag.com. May 2010.

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• Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of different physical and moral agencies, that unless there is a corresponding diversity in their modes of life, they neither obtain their fair share of happiness, nor grow up to the mental, moral, and aesthetic stature of which their nature is capable.

  John Stuart Mill

  Growing Up, Pain, Differences

  John Stuart Mill (2017). “The Greatest Happiness Principle - Utilitarianism, On Liberty & The Subjection of Women: The Principle of the Greatest-Happiness: What Is Utilitarianism (Proofs & Principles), Civil & Social Liberty, Liberty of Thought, Individuality & Individual Freedom, Utilitarian Feminism”, p.148, Madison & Adams

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