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“It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.”
Moliere
“If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.”
Groucho Marx
“Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees.”
Will Rogers
“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.”
Bertrand Russell
“I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.”
“A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.”
Whitney Balliett
“One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms”
Carl Gustav Jung
“Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.”
James Arthur Baldwin
“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.”
Carl Rogers
