“ Quotations from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external. ”
- Louise Imogen Guiney- Copy
- 115
“ Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other. ”
- Jean Baudrillard- Copy
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“ The difference between people and ideas is… only superficial. ”
- Richard Rorty- Copy
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“ We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct. ”
- Charles Sanders Peirce- Copy
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“ Anything that is as old as racism is in the blood line of the nation. It's not any superficial thing — that attitude is in the blood and we have to educate about it. ”
- Nannie Burroughs- Copy
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“ I don't want to sound superficial, but when I go see a movie myself, I'd rather look at Tom Cruise than some shmo with a beer belly. ”
- Natalie Portman- Copy
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“ On a superficial level, I like girls with dark hair - I'm a sucker for that. ”
- Elijah Wood- Copy
- 712
“ It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date. ”
- Roger Von Oech- Copy
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“ Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial. ”
- Henry Ross Perot- Copy
- 710
“ This is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxy-wide success is founded…their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws. ”
- TH Nelson- Copy
- 678
“ True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision. ”
- Cavett Robert- Copy
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“ If we are to lift ourselves out of this morass, we must shift our sights from the superficial to the sacrificial. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work. ”
- Edith Hamilton- Copy
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“ It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false. ”
- P. D. James- Copy
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“ Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio — empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how — has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades… ”
- Daniel J. Boorstin- Copy
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“ The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the "creative" is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the non-mystic, a war to the death. ”
- May Sarton- Copy
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“ The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not very original. They are rarely useful. The process, however, seems to make uncreative people feel that they are making innovative contributions and that others are listening to them. ”
- Harvey A. Block- Copy
- 402
“ The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive — you are leaking. ”
- Fran Lebowitz- Copy
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“ The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence. ”
- Stephen R. Covey- Copy
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“ To be content with life — or to live merrily, rather — all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject; the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation. ”
- Ansel Adams- Copy
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“ Actually I consider myself a superficially normal looking person who has a vast collection of bizarre silly porn hidden in his basement, as all normal looking people do, and I'm keeping it hidden from everyone in the world except those few people with access to the Internet. ”
- Chris A. Bridges- Copy
- 254
“ To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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