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Tag Name "Irrepressible" (24)

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Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.
Haruki Murakami
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in themselves and their institutions.
Alistair Cooke
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No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury.
Barbara Tuchman
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The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.
Donal Henahan
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Be a dynamo of irrepressible joy!
Haidakhan Babaji
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It troubles me that we are so easily pressured by purveyors of technology into permitting so-called progress to alter our lives without attempting to control it-as if technology were an irrepressible force of nature to which we must meekly submit.
Hyman Rickover
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The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.
John Henninger Reagan
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The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities.
Mark Twain
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Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.
Sappho
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The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.
Storm Jameson
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Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.
Wallace Stevens
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It is the divine attribute of the imagination, that it is irrepressible, unconfinable that when the real world is shut out, it can create a world for itself, and with a necromantic power can conjure up glorious shapes and forms, and brilliant visions to make solitude populous, and irradiate the gloom of a dungeon.
Washington Irving
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I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.
Abraham Lincoln
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I have some irrepressible pop impulses to write an appealing, concise song. And I also have some irrepressible kind of restlessness as well, and I need to keep myself interested. When I'm left to my own devices, there's a struggle.
Andrew Bird
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The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.
Barbara Tuchman
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
Ezra Pound
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It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement
Jacques Derrida
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In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being not successful. He is or should be an irrepressible optimist because of his immovable faith in the ultimate victory of Truth, which is God.
Mahatma Gandhi
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What has not been clear is that the potential of this emergency-born technology has always accrued to human's prewar individual initiatives taken in a humble but irrepressible progression of assumptions, measurements, deductions, and codifications of pure science.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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You get some success. You run into some walls...it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.
Steve Ballmer
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Don't listen to other people's advice unless it is rooted in irrepressible enthusiasm (e.g., Be afraid but do it anyway), or about the importance of being a good colleague.
Torill Kove
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I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep thinker and an irrepressible problem solver. He was a Black Socrates, asking why and then spoiling ready-made replies.
Walter Mosley
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It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.
William H. Seward