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• Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers.

  Carl Sagan

  Answers, Courageous, Satisfied

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• Superficial parallels were drawn between the Church and the Nazi Party, with its emphasis on active involvement by every member. The women's auxiliary of the Party and the Hitler Youth were regarded by some as secular equivalents to the Church's Relief Society, MIA, and the Scouting programs.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Party, Church, Relief

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• Feminism without spirituality runs the risk of becoming what it rejects: an elitist ideology, arrogant, superficial and separatist, closed to everything but itself. Without a spiritual base that obligates it beyond itself, calls it out of itself for the sake of others, a pedagogical feminism turned in on itself can become just one more intellectual ghetto that the world doesn’t notice and doesn’t need.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Running, Spiritual, Ghetto

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• There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility and compassion. It made them more real.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Letting Go, Teacher, Pain

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.177, New World Library

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• In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of us are intellectual-intellectuals in the superficial sense of being very clever, full of words and theories about what is right and what is wrong, about how we should think, what we should do. Mentally we are highly developed, but inwardly there is very little substance or significance; and it is this inward substance that brings about true action, which is not action according to an idea.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Country, Clever, Character

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• Research indicates that once an uncommitted couple gets involved in sexual intercourse, the relationship usually begins to end. They have reached the superficial end of the physical aspects of the relationship, and they have no particularly compelling reason to explore its depths.

  Chip Ingram

  Couple, Compelling Reason, Depth

  Chip Ingram (2014). “Love, Sex, and Lasting Relationships: God's Prescription for Enhancing Your Love Life”, p.75, Baker Books

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• Ask courageous questions.
  Do not be satisfied with superficial answers.
  Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to intense skeptical scrutiny.
  Be aware of human fallibility.
  Cherish your species and your planet.

  Carl Sagan

  Answers, Courageous, Wonder

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• I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them - the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.

  Thomas Merton

  Sweet, College, Years

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.156, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Mean, Fancy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.427

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• We all, as human beings, have different layers, and if we become one-dimensional or really superficial, then I still think there are things that happened that got us to that place.

  Kalup Linzy

  Thinking, Different, Layers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones...If...we are obliged to create our own language, it is because there are dimensions to ourselves absent from clichés, which require us to flout etiquette in order to convey with greater accuracy the distinctive timbre of our thought.

  Alain de Botton

  Order, Ideas, Dimensions

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• I was not especially enthusiastic about opera when I was young, and I thought I would never write one. I felt it was an art form of the past, with expensive singers exposing their high notes, and bad theater, and ridiculous stories which don't concern us. But then little by little I realized that it can be defined very differently, that on the contrary opera can be something profound and not superficial - a wonderful meeting point for all the other arts.

  Kaija Saariaho

  Art, Writing, Past

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.

  Frank Knight

  Truth, Essentials, Problem

  Frank H. Knight, Ross B. Emmett (1999). “Selected Essays by Frank H. Knight, Volume 2: Laissez Faire: Pro and Con”, p.83, University of Chicago Press

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• Do you know anything about fashion magazines? Being treated like superficial bimbos by men like you, and having to write about designer brands. Do you know what that feels like?

  Suh Jung

  Fashion, Writing, Men

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• Superficial people are those who simply go along without a question in the world-asking nothing, troubled by nothing, examining nothing. Whatever people around them do, they do, too. That's a sad and plastic life-routine and comfortable, maybe, but still sad.

  Joan D. Chittister

  People, Routine, Asking

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• We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.

  Shane Leslie

  Should Have, Office, Return

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• The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.

  Leo Bogart

  Ideas, Measurement, Recognition

  LEO BOGART (1967). “STRATEGY IN ADVERTISING”

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• It's not being superficial, but looks do attract me from across the gym.

  Kiana Tom

  Looks, Gym

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• We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Soul, Reason, Instinct

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1992). “Reasoning and the Logic of Things: The Cambridge Conferences Lectures of 1898”, p.121, Harvard University Press

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• The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets. Is the charge true? I think it is.

  E. M. Forster

  Hypocrite, Thinking, Islands

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• If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.

  Ethan Hawke

  Unhappy, Causes, Literature

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 12, 2012.

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• Heist movies tend to be a bit superficial, glamorous, and fun. They don't tend to be emotionally engaging.

  Christopher Nolan

  Fun, Glamorous, Heist

  Source: deadline.com

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• My strong sense of discipline has always been with me, and it also gave me the need for deep affection. I have never been satisfied with acquaintances who are superficial, volatile, or quick to change. I have surrounded myself with people with whom I am in total complicity.

  Giorgio Armani

  Strong, Deep Affection, Discipline

  Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2008.

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• One of the great things about Parkinson's, in a superficial way, is it relieved me of vanity. I don't worry about what I look like, because it's literally out of my hands. But on a deeper level, it gives you a real humility, because you have to deal every day with the fact that you compromise.

  Michael J. Fox

  Real, Humility, Vanity

  "Happy Birthday, Michael". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. May 5, 2011.

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• All you do as a performer is keep doing it. If you keep doing it, then it depends on why you're doing it. If you're doing something for superficial, monumental reasons and if you're doing it for female attention, or if you're doing it for money, it's like being upset. Only way you can get upset is when you expecting something. If you don't get this award or don't get that award, that because you expect something.

  Bernie Mac

  Awards, Upset, Expecting Something

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