The absolute yearning of one ...

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life\'s major mysteries.
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
 Iris Murdoch

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
 Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
 Will Smith
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
 William Howard Taft
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
 John Carlos

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We can only learn to love by loving.
 Iris Murdoch
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
 Iris Murdoch
There is a spider called Amaurobius, which lives in a burrow and has its young in the late summer, and then it dies when the frosts begin, and the young spiders live through the cold by eating their mother's dead body. One can't believe that's an accident. I don't know that I imagined God as having thought it all out, but somehow He was connected with the pattern, He was the pattern.
 Iris Murdoch
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
 Iris Murdoch
until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable.
 Iris Murdoch