“ The Widow and Her Little Maidens A widow who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her. She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow. The maidens, aggravated by such excessive labor, resolved to kill the cock who roused their mistress so early… ”
- Aesop- Copy
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“ To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time. ”
- Katharine Hepburn- Copy
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“ No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him. ”
- Isaac Barrow- Copy
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“ Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
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“ Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an "alien" element. ”
- Gloria Anzaldúa- Copy
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“ When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. ”
- Warren Buffett- Copy
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“ The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful — because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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“ Keep integrity and your work ethics intact. So what if that means working a little harder; an honorable character is your best calling card, and that's something anyone can have! ”
- Kathy Ireland- Copy
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“ Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of Twentieth Century. ”
- J. G. Ballard- Copy
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“ The historian does simply not come in to replenish the gaps of memory. He constantly challenges even those memories that have survived intact. ”
- Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi- Copy
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“ To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ In order to hold your faith intact Be sure it's kept unsullied by fact. ”
- Donald Westlake- Copy
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“ When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. ”
- Peter De Vries- Copy
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“ Perhaps we have become interested in the soul once again — it has been seriously discussed by theologians, philosophers, and poets for centuries — because we know there is more to life than what the sciences can grasp. We may like the word "soul" precisely because it is beyond definition and keeps the mystery element in life intact. ”
- Thomas Moore- Copy
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“ 'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact. ”
- Naomi Wolf- Copy
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“ I had quite a repressed childhood. I was born in '55 and by the mid '60s it was still very much a sort of '50s mentality there, being so remote. I just found it stifling. And at some point - I think I was about 12 - I came to the conclusion that it was going to be difficult to survive that little society somehow intact. ”
- Judy Davis- Copy
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“ Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness… ”
- C. S. Lewis- Copy
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