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Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
Jim Morrison

Truth, Sex, Tell

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Carl Sagan

Society, Science, Technology

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
St. Jerome

Long, Friend, Found

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
George Bernard Shaw

Truth, Enough, Energy

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
Plato

Age, Nature, Happy

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.
Steve Jobs

Money, Attention, Happened

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
Plato

Human, Two, Capable

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
Lech Walesa

Bitterness, Possible, Mood

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Plato

Known, Capable, Reasoning

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
Yogi Berra

Close, Thick, Suitcase

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything, Almost, Sensible

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Robert A. Heinlein

Life, Alive, Anyone

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
Erica Jong

Women, Smart, Woman

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
John Ruskin

Cannot, Worse, Consider

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Tennessee Williams

Life, Moment, Memory

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Money, Real, Everything

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
Erich Fromm

Love, Started, Hopes

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
George Orwell

War, Makes, Progress

When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Faithful, Himself

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
George Eliot

Jealousy, Passion, Fire

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
Albert Schweitzer

Creation, Devils, Recognize

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.
Marquis de Sade

Liberty, Social, Order

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
Vincent Van Gogh

Good, Knowledge, Scientific

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Political, Question, United

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Time, Him, Same

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Agatha Christie

Anybody, Principles, Sticks

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
Samuel Johnson

Mind, Else, Belly

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
Jane Austen

Friendship, Money, Business

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Marcel Proust

Happiness, Purpose, Possible

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Time, Remember, Few

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