Dorothea Dix Quotes

I have little taste for fashionable dissipations, cards, and dancing; the theatre and tea parties are my aversion, and I look with little envy on those who find their enjoyment in such transitory delights, if delights they may be called.

Dorothea Dix

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 4, 1802 - July 17, 1887

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Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.

Jim Morrison

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From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.

Simon Schama

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Many people want 'God bless America,' but they don't want 'One nation under God.' The problem is you can't have one without the other.

Tony Evans

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My parents were artists, so my salvation was to make pretty things - and ultimately delicious things at the same time.

Ron Ben-Israel

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Indeed, the whole point of the man bun, I have surmised, is to assert a high proficiency at yoga. There are no yoga-achievement badges, no coloured belts like judo, so the male yoga expert needs some other kind of visible symbol.

Russell Smith

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I will hold my head high in Rio and do my best for Great Britain.

Lizzie Armitstead

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I love the you-never-know-what's-going-to-happen aspect of doing concerts.

Jonathan Groff

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After Cannes, my agent told me to get the next flight to LA. He was right. I had a part in 'Prime Suspect 3' by the end of the week.

David Thewlis

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The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Confucius

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If you can play guitar and sing, you can probably get a gig down the road playing at a restaurant, but don't throw your life away chasing something that is so elusive it will only lead you to regret and may turn you bitter.

Cliff Richard

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All the people in Korea are cheering me like I'm a gold medalist or something, so I have a responsibility to my country.

Psy

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I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas.

Norman McLaren

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