“ One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic. ”
- William Hull- Copy
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“ The community in which you choose to live, indeed, can be an oasis of comfort in the midst of a maddeningly impersonal world. ”
- Brad Henry- Copy
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“ The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion of their power. ”
- John Berger- Copy
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“ The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. ”
- Hubert H. Humphrey- Copy
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“ Connected knowers do not measure other people's words by some impersonal standard. Their purpose is not to judge but to understand. ”
- Mary Field Belenky- Copy
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“ An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.'. ”
- Marie Carmichael Stopes- Copy
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“ An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics. ”
- Stephen Hawking- Copy
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“ What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils from private life; but it seems to me to be always dropping diaphanous but blinding veils between men and men… ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. All strong interests easily become impersonal, the love of a good job well done… ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ When I think of the Supreme Being as inactive neither creating nor preserving nor destroying-I call Him Brahman or Purusha, the Impersonal God. When I think of Him as active-creating, preserving, destroying-I call Him Shakti or Maya or Prakriti, the Personal God… ”
- Al Ghazali- Copy
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“ The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. This means… that he should be able to justify every purchase he makes and each price he pays by impersonal, objective reasoning that satisfies him that he is getting more than his money's worth for his purchase. ”
- Benjamin Graham- Copy
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“ The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character. ”
- Alfred Jarry- Copy
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