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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Admiration

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.
Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.
We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier!
You always admire what you really don't understand.


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