Quote by Lionel Trilling
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpl

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. – Lionel Trilling

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Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. – Lionel Trilling

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We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. – Lionel Trilling

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It is better to be looked over than overlooked. – Mae West

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Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. – Marshall McLuhan

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Obscurity brings safety. – Aesop

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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants and poodles find many things obscure. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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The Seven Deadly Sins are a litany of victimless crimes, compiled to distract attention from the bloody felonies of the righteous. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be – although I think he had more going on under the surface as well. – David Cronenberg

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We dont do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance. – Anita Baker

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