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"any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air." »Leonard Bernstein
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"any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air." »Leonard Bernstein
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"There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed." »Lao Tzu
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"There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
There is no greater guilt than discontentment.
And there is not greater disaster than greed." »Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
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"In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane." »George Orwell, 1984
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"There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation." »Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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"There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life." »Sister Mary Rose McGeady
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"Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul." »Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
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"to one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all." »Spiro Agnew
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"The meaning of the words is necessary and not their extent." »Sorin Cerin
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"to what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act We do not know." »Alexis Carrel
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"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen." »Samuel Adams
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"We are beings only in the extent of Our Life's Illusion." »Sorin Cerin
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"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." »Confucius
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"Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it." »Samuel Smiles
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"The Depth of your Mythology is the extent of your Effectiveness." »John Maxwell
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"I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone." »John Updike
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"The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals." »Rensis Likert
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"My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants." »J. Brotherton
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"There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices." »Francis Jeffrey
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"I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true." »Derek Curtis Bok
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"My fate cannot be mastered it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger." »Aldous Huxley
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"The greater man the greater courtesy." »Alfred Lord Tennyson
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"There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender." »J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)
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"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy." »Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Srange Land
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"The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us." »Anna James
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"The war in Vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing." »Ronald Reagan
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"Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control." »Allen Ginsberg
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"The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent." »Smiley Blanton
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"We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." »H.L. Mencken
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