“ You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. ”
- Charles Bukowski- Copy
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“ The aggravated agony of depression is terrifying, and elation, its nonidentical twin sister, is even more terrifying-attractive as she may be for a moment. You are grandiose beyond the reality of your creativity. ”
- Joshua Logan- Copy
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“ To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture… ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances. ”
- Thomas Sowell- Copy
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“ The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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“ Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense! ”
- Comte De Lautreamont- Copy
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“ I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. ”
- Erma Bombeck- Copy
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“ As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ The consumer's side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious. ”
- Stanislaw J. Lec- Copy
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“ In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job. ”
- Rowan Atkinson- Copy
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“ In the nineteenth century the camera made a realist of the man on the street. Now the computer can make anybody a desktop Cubist. Technology may or may not be destiny, but I doubt that machines will replace art any more than wheels have replaced feet. ”
- Brad Holland- Copy
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“ The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
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