Robert A. Lovett famous quotes

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  • Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden apparatus by a series of gruesome body piercings, and engage in their bizarre practices of ritualized blood-drinking and cannibalism without being assaulted by graphic images of attractive young women with bare breasts.

  • All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.

  • No one can escape stress, but you can learn to cope with it. Practice positive thinking. . . seize control in small ways.

  • I'll put an end to the idea that a woman's body belongs to her . . . the practice of abortion shall be exterminated with a strong hand.

  • It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.

  • It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.

  • Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

  • The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

  • There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.

  • I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.

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