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Critic Inspirational Quotes (4995)

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Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.
Bernard Crick
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Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is used to cut diamonds.
John Green
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A true woman loves a strong man because she knows his weaknesses. She protects as much as she is protected.
Andre Maurois
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The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel.
Eduard Hanslick
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The head of a Pike, served at supper, is said to have caused the death from terror of Theodoric the Goth, who imagined the fish's features to be those of Symmachus, a man he had just killed. But for this story, we of today would have no idea what Symmachus looked like.
Will Cuppy
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It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.
Alfred Jarry
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Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us the belief that we can 'make sense of it all.
Vivian Gornick
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There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water
John Green
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The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre - To be redeemed from fire by fire.
T. S. Eliot
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For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T. S. Eliot
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Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history. It is the companion that dogs our every step.
Alain Finkielkraut
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The more it changes, the more it's the same thing.
Alphonse Karr
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The whisper of the blood and the pleading of the bone marrow.
Knut Hamsun
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Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.
Roman Jakobson
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Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.
Dan Morgenstern
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Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-
T. S. Eliot
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If we look to the south, to Iran, which cannot be accused of excess democratic zeal - it goes without saying that the unstable situation does not prepare the ground for a democratic development.
Garry Kasparov
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There is no democracy in Russia. Dictators do not go away through the vote. Putin relies on riot police, thousands of them, with heavy equipment, fighting Russian youngsters from opposition.
Garry Kasparov
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Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.
Margaret Fuller
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The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
V. S. Pritchett
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The phrase booze and mischief left me worrying I'd stumbled into what my mother referred to as the wrong crowd, but for the wrong crowd, they both seemed awfully smart.
John Green
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To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.
Cornel West
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I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
Wislawa Szymborska
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Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
Wislawa Szymborska
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