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One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
William Lyon Phelps
I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.
Geoffrey Fisher
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors.
Lili Taylor
What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.
George Weinberg
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One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
William Lyon Phelps 
64% of people like this quote
I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.
Geoffrey Fisher
61% of people like this quote
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
59% of people like this quote
The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors.
Lili Taylor
56% of people like this quote
What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.
George Weinberg
56% of people like this quote
If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
Wallace Stevens
54% of people like this quote
The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.
Michael Oxley
53% of people like this quote
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