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No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions  (Upon Quotes) He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart  (Upon Quotes) Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives  (Upon Quotes) As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it  (Upon Quotes) To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self  (Upon Quotes) Everybody has to be reminded that there’s another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that’s not necessarily based upon contrivances  (Upon Quotes) The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we’d probably go to war  (Upon Quotes) The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent  (Upon Quotes) I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season  (Upon Quotes) The terrorist attacks upon our country changed the way that we live forever and provided us with a cruel reminder that freedom and liberty have a price  (Upon Quotes) An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet. In the short span of his lifetime, an actor must learn all there is to know, experience all there is to experience, or approach that state as closely as possible. He must be superhuman in his efforts to store away in the core of his subconscious everything that he might be called upon to use in the expression of his art  (Upon Quotes) Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life  (Upon Quotes) When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble  (Upon Quotes) In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul  (Upon Quotes) I’m trying to set up opportunities for myself so that I don’t only have one outlet to go through and rely upon as far as a support system financially, emotionally and mentally  (Upon Quotes) It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions  (Upon Quotes) Man’s naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages  (Upon Quotes) Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts  (Upon Quotes) Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywhere are sitting in judgment upon the conduct of all nations  (Upon Quotes) Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly  (Upon Quotes) Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order  (Upon Quotes) The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in  (Upon Quotes) The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one’s control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one’s free will  (Upon Quotes) I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation  (Upon Quotes) I’ve always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that’s what independent used to mean  (Upon Quotes) The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists  (Upon Quotes) And for man to look upon himself as a capital good, even if it did not impair his freedom, may seem to debase him... by investing in themselves people can enlarge the range of choice available to them. It is one way free men can enhance their welfare  (Upon Quotes) We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us  (Upon Quotes) I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns  (Upon Quotes) An absolutely necessary part of a writer’s equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself  (Upon Quotes)
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