- Ascetic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dispense Quotes
Dispense quotes here cover very different kinds of letting go: trusting information freely under censorship, philosophy showing how to dispense with an old concept without losing its benefit, and whether a justice system can realistically dispense forgiveness the way a priest might.
These dispense quotes cover letting go in different forms, from philosophy dispensing with old concepts to whether justice can Better dispense forgiveness.
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- Does
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. They learn to communicate with double meanings.
- Conscience
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs.
- False
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm honest and fair, but I don't dispense false kindness.
- Ascetic
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- Nov 07, 2020
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
- Fake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reality television is to television what marble and gold are to real estate. The point is to dispense with the idea of taste. It's all id. The more unrestrained the better. We all know that 'reality' in reality television is not real. That anybody who would participate in reality television is a fake. But pretending otherwise makes them real.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Limited points of view let the writer dispense - and the reader gather - information from various corners of the story. It all becomes a kind of dance, with the writer guiding the reader through the various twists and turns. The challenge is keeping readers in step, while still managing to surprise.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020