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«All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.»
Author: Derek Jarman (Artist, Author, Film Director) | Keywords: defensive, homosexual, hopelessly, ideal, odd, odder, oddest, Odd and, purity, racial, sexuality, straight
«Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci (Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor) | About: Action | Keywords: disuse, even so, inaction, iron, ironed, ironing, irons, loses, purity, rusted, rusts, sap, sapped, sapping, saps, stagnation, vigour, water
«It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.»
Author: Margaret Fuller | Keywords: falsehoods, purity
«He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver»
Author: Thomas Kempis | Keywords: considers, giver, purity, The Gift, The Giver, The Lover
«And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together»
Author: James Madison (President) | About: Example, Religion | Keywords: mixed, no doubt, purity, showing
«I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke (Humorist, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: absolve, absolved, code, critter, critters, journalist, Journalists, motive, objectivity, Olympian, purity, roach, roaches, scurry, scurrying, step on, turn on
«Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.»
Author: Swami Sivananda (Founder, Monk, Physician) | About: Life | Keywords: aspire, compassionate, do good, fleeting, gateway, gateways, inquire, inquired, inquires, inquiring, meditate, purity, renounce, The Gateway
«It is as if there were a natural law which ordained that to achieve this end, to refine the curve of a piece of furniture, or a ship's keel, or the fuselage of an airplane, until gradually it partakes of the elemental purity of the curve of the human»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Author, Pilot, Writer) | Keywords: Airplanes, curve, elemental, furniture, fuselage, gradually, keel, keel over, natural law, ordain, ordained, ordains, partaken, partakes, partake in, partaking, piece of furniture, purity, refine, refining
«Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci (Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor) | Keywords: cold iron, Cold Water, cold weather, disuse, even so, frozen, inaction, purity, rusts, sap, sapped, saps, stagnant
«I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi (Philosopher) | Keywords: attribute, due to, effects, inherent, inheritance, inheritances, purity, successfully, surmount, surmounted, surmounting
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