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• We need the conflagration of Love to change the world, we need the fire of love to illuminate the society. The cold, insipid and complicated codes don't change anything, don't transform anything. All the best social projects and the best political principles are useless if they are not written with the fire of Love. The real revolution is the result of transformation, only the storms of Love can transform the individual and the society.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Real, Fire Of Love, Political

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• Un genio es el hombre en el que es menos probable encontrar el poder de prestar atención a algo insípido o desagradable en sí mismo. Rompe sus compromisos, deja sus cartas sin contestar, descuida sus deberes familiares incorregiblemente, porque es incapaz de desviar su atención de aquellos trenes de imágenes más interesantes con los que su genio ocupa constantemente su mente.

  William James

  Familia, Poder, Hombres

  William James (1983). "Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals", p.67, Harvard University Press

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• Tu propio vestido es el más delicadamente adecuado, tanto para la ocasión como para ti misma,' para ser traducido: Tu vestido es insípido y totalmente olvidable. Si te lo pones en todas las ocasiones de la temporada, nadie se dará cuenta ni le importará.

  Anne Perry

  Gowns, Care, Forgettable

  Anne Perry (2010). “Belgrave Square: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel”, p.83, Ballantine Books

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• Auto da Fay reveals the trickles of a creative sensibility that later became a tide, but essentially, Weldon the writer emerges only at the very end of this volume, in conjunction with her finding and marrying her husband of 30 years, Ron Weldon. In this sense, it is half a memoir, the private background story to the public future. (...) The reader is forced to re-evaluate the spectacular weirdness of Weldon's fiction: having lived such a life any other kind would seem insipid.

  Joanna Murray-Smith

  Husband, Years, Creative

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• The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.

  Rudy Rucker

  Magic, Style, Sorcery

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• Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

  George Santayana

  Men, Heaven, Ridiculous

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.319, Indiana University Press

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• Every instance in my life, I've felt like the exact opposite of Superman. Except this time, this moment right now. I don't care. I don't feel like a weak, insipid sissy. Because right now I know I would save the girl. I know that I would rather risk the planet than let harm befall Eliza Wishart. I would save her in a second. Because I can imagine her and me huddled safe together while the earth falls under evil designs, but I can't imagine the world without her in it.

  Craig Silvey

  Girl, Fall, Opposites

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• There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body!

  Fanny Burney

  Running, Hate, Jail

  'Camilla' (1796) bk. 3, ch. 12

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• England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

  Edward Abbey

  Country, Littles, Revolution

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.56, RosettaBooks

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• No veo ninguna grandeza en mí mismo... Soy un adolescente simplón, infantil, insípido, un poco imbécil y un poco torpe.

  Neal Cassady

  Children, Hipster, Simple

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• El placer que no se paga es tan insípido como todo lo que es gratis.

  Anita Loos

  Pleasure, Paid

  Anita Loos (1974). "Kiss Hollywood good-by", Viking Adultos

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• Water and oil, simply considered, are capable of giving some pleasure to the taste. Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth; it is found, when not cold, to be a great resolver of spasms, and lubricator of the fibres; this power it probably owes to its smoothness.

  Edmund Burke

  Water, Smooth, Colorless

  "Complete Works of Edmund Burke".

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• I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Forever, Missing, Literature

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.464

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• The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Bored, Kind, Enchanting

  Vladimir Nabokov (1970). “Mary: A Novel”, Vintage Books

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• Fue el hombre que de todos los poetas modernos, y quizá antiguos, tuvo el alma más grande y completa. . . . Era naturalmente culto; no necesitaba las gafas de los libros para leer la Naturaleza; miraba hacia dentro y la encontraba allí. . . . Muchas veces es plano, insípido; su ingenio cómico degenera en chascarrillos, su seriedad se hincha en ampulosidad. Pero siempre es grande, cuando se le presenta alguna ocasión.

  John Dryden

  Book, Men, Soul

  'An Essay of Dramatic Poesy' (1668) on Shakespeare

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• The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

  William Shenstone

  Wine, Power, White

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.124

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• There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung around saloons and used rough language. Now they've all been replaced with these effete Ivy League elitists who swarm over the current media. Nerds - utterly dull and insipid.

  Camille Paglia

  War, Class, Ivy

  "DRUDGE MATCH: Camille Paglia Gets Intimate With The Shady Wizard Of The Web". Interview with Matt Drudge, freerepublic.com. November 6, 2003.

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• If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Libro, Lectura, Escritura

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2008). “The History of Pendennis (Volume 2 of 2 ) (EasyRead Edition)”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It's their skins I'm peeling," she said. "The skins of the insipid scribblers, which I graft to the page, creating monsters of meaninglessness.

  Janet Fitch

  Creating, Skins, Monsters

  Janet Fitch (2002). "White Oleander", Large Print Press

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• How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet.

  Anne Rice

  Sweet, Shameful, Predictable

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2444, Ballantine Books

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• El bien puro pronto se vuelve insípido, necesita variedad y espíritu. El dolor es un agridulce que nunca sacia. El amor se convierte, con un poco de indulgencia, en indiferencia o repugnancia. Sólo el odio es inmortal.

  William Hazlitt

  Pain, Hate, Hatred

  William Hazlitt (1826). “The plain speaker: opinions on books, men, and things [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.309

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• Did I, my lines intend for public view,How many censures, would their faults pursue,Some would, because such words they do affect,Cry they're insipid, empty, uncorrect.And many, have attained, dull and untaught,The name of wit, only by finding fault.True judges, might condemn their want of wit,And all might say, they're by a woman writ.

  Anne Finch, Condesa de Winchilsea

  Views, Names, Judging

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• As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless, cold, charmless, insipid, less than penetratingly bright, but otherwise---and inexplicably---to be envied.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  California, Cold, Wasps

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have welded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened by the crowing of a rooster or when strolling under a starry heaven. In general, people savor the "pleasures of the flesh" only on the condition that they may be insipid.

  Georges Bataille

  Fear, Eye, People

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• All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so "slow," so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle — keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Taken, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.4678, Delphi Classics

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