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Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure. – Paul de Man	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel. – Thomas Hardy	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death. – Olive Schreiner	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others -- this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples. – George Will	added by anonymous 10 years ago
In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera. – Arthur Miller	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. – John Stuart Mill	added by anonymous 10 years ago
One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it. – F. Scott Fitzgerald	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. – Ursula K. Le Guin	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The good man shuns evil and follows good; he keeps secret that which ought to be hidden; he makes his virtues manifest to all; he does not forsake one in adversity; he gives in season: such are the marks of a worthy friend. – Bhartrihari	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The chalk marks are transient, the formulas eternal. – S. Weinstein	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. – H. L. Mencken	added by anonymous 13 years ago
For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks-not that you won or lost- But how you played the game. – Grantland Rice, "Alumunus Football," Only the Brave and Other Poems, p. 144 (1941)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action. – Eric Hoffer	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to "get by." – Author Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
JUDGE, n A law student who marks his own papers. – H.L. Mencken	added by anonymous 14 years ago
That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of our time. – John Stuart Mill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I have a spelling checkerIt came with my PCIt plainly marks four my revueMistakes I cannot sea.I've run this poem threw it,I'm sure your pleased too no,Its letter perfect in it's weigh,My checker tolled me sew. – Janet Minor	added by anonymous 14 years ago
While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again. – Aesop	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. – Jack London	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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