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Saturday, September 21st, 2024
the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24

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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Multiplicity'

9 entries

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Saint Augustine, Saint (354-430)

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

E. M. Forster, English Novelist (1879-1970)

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

Todd Gitlin, American Sociologist

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

Jane Jacobs, American Sociologist (1916-2006)

The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in.

Thom Mayne, American Architect (1942- )

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

Quintilian, Roman Educator

Multiplicity was a movie that tested really well. People seeing the movie really liked it, but then the studio couldn't market it. We opened on a weekend with nine other films.

Harold Ramis, American Actor (1944- )

Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.

Marquis de Sade, French Novelist (1740-1814)

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

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