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The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.
David Hume

Philosophy, Secret, Influence

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
Hugh Blair

Whatever, Gentleness, Offensive

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
Aristophanes

Bad, Voice, Popular

My show is a sensory assault... in a very brief manner - the show is only 25 minutes long.
Kesha

Long, Show, Minutes

Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
Salman Rushdie

Music, Freedom, Rock

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.
John Cage

Nature, Her, Purpose

I lived my twenties in a very public manner and if anyone's twenties are documented it's not always going to be pretty.
Sienna Miller

Pretty, Anyone, Public

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
Louis D. Brandeis

Himself, Won, Temper

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Knowledge, Rather, Growth

I have always watched the rushes, and have learned more because I have done so, because you can have all manner of ideas in your head, but they have to end up on the screen.
Jacqueline Bisset

End, Done, Learned

A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.
Richard Steele

Sex, Woman, Sense

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
Albert J. Nock

Positive, History, State

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life, Simply, Duty

Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure.
James Wolcott

Everyone, Off, Show

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.
James Otis

Legal, May, Control

So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.
Buffalo Bill

Death, Father, Friends

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck

Happiness, State, Traveling

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
William J. Brennan, Jr.

Sex, Interest, Material

My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.
Julie Burchill

Friendship, Attitude, Husband

Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
Zbigniew Brzezinski

Religion, Islam, Emotion

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
Wallace Stevens

Nature, God, Whether

Stem cell research must be carried out in an ethical manner in a way that respects the sanctity of human life.
John Boehner

Life, Human, Research

You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire.
Kim Basinger

Opinion, Lose, Whatever

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
Bela Lugosi

Him, Himself, Actor

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.
Alain de Botton

Success, Argument, Depends

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
Dean Acheson

Important, Endured, Endures

Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.
Carol Bellamy

Education, Future, Children

Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.
Jacques Lacan

Seem, Irrational, Isolated

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.
George H. Mead

Evil, Find, Before

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
Lascelles Abercrombie

Life, Great, Attitude

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