Quote by Norman Douglas
It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegia

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. – Norman Douglas

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. – Norman Douglas

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Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. – Norman Douglas

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When an individual is protesting societys refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. – Bayard Rustin

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And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know. – James Earl Jones

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Congress acknowledged that societys accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment. – William J. Brennan, Jr.

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As society advances the standard of poverty rises. – Theodore Parker

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Television has raised writing to a new low. – Samuel Goldwyn

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