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«We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.»
«Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.»
«When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.»
Author: John Updike | About: Writing | Keywords: East, East of, Kansas, The East, vague
«You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.»
Author: Pablo Picasso (Artist, Painter) | About: Ideas | Keywords: idea, vague, vaguer
«We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.»
«When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes»

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