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  • The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.
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    Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Self Quotes , May Quotes
  • There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.
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    Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Names Quotes , May Quotes
  • Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources. And every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.
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    Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Desire Quotes , May Quotes
  • The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as a basis, it is scarcely conceivable that anyone else would have discovered it. I do not hesitate to confess that to a certain extent a similar pleasure may be found by absorbing ourselves in questions of pure geometry.
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    Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Science Quotes , May Quotes
  • I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you. But if you're in love with the thing, it may run like hell away from you.
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    Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Running Quotes , May Quotes
  • The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good.
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    Tags : Plato Quotes , May Quotes