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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
by Alexander Pope (Poet, English , born in 1688) keywords: anxiety, better, call, diet, disease, health, much, perpetual, purchased, some, tedious , than Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.
by Richard Powers (Novelist, American , born in 1957) keywords: condition, control, cultivating, face, forever, grows, latest, mastery, our, perpetual, reverence, richer, science, something, step, subtler, than, theory , wonder The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
by Marquis de Sade (Novelist, French , born in 1740) keywords: beautiful, consequence, crimes, her, means, most, motion, nature, only, perpetual, primary, qualities, she, simply, times , which The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
by George Santayana (Philosopher, American , born in 1970) keywords: caricature, contradiction, every, itself, mockery, moment, perpetual, pretending , world The right to have a slave implies the right in some one to make the slave; that right must be equal and mutual, and this would resolve society into a state of perpetual war.
by William H. Seward (Statesman, American , born in 1801) keywords: equal, implies, into, make, must, mutual, perpetual, resolve, right, slave, society, some, state, war , would I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
by William Shakespeare (Dramatist, English , born in 1970) keywords: better, death, eaten, motion, nothing, perpetual, rust, than , were The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.
by Hugh Sidey (Journalist, American , born in 1927) keywords: analyzing, budget, campaign, clash, combat, consequence, cover, created, dry, duty, electoral, federal, legions, perpetual, politics, presidential, quit, reporters, thunder , want If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.
by Goldwin Smith (Historian, Canadian , born in 1823) keywords: ages, effort, life, live, middle, perpetual, real, were, would , your Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
by Robert Louis Stevenson (Writer, Scottish , born in 1850) keywords: business, calls, devotion, his, man, many, neglect, only, other, perpetual, sustained , things The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
by Igor Stravinsky (Composer, Russian , born in 1882) keywords: any, becoming, ending, endless, had, melody, more, music, never, perpetual, principle, reason, starting , than Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.
by William Graham Sumner (Businessman, American , born in 1840) keywords: cases, connection, crimes, each, financial, fraud, greed, men, other, perpetual, say, selfishness, these, things , undoubtedly A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
by Jeremy Taylor (Clergyman, British , born in 1613) keywords: alone, apple, celibate, confined, dies, dwells, fly, heart, perpetual, singularity, sits , sweetness Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
by Cal Thomas (Journalist, American , born in 1942) keywords: doing, get, government, kick, need, pants, parent, perpetual, sometimes, them, weren , would I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.
by Edward Zwick (Director, American , born in 1952) keywords: being, filmmaker, kind, opportunity, perpetual, privileges, remain, student , think
