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• Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?

  Rachel Carson

  Home, Circles, Insanity

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Encontré el corazón humano vacío e insípido en todas partes excepto en los libros.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Book, Heart, Empty

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• We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.

  George Eliot

  Self, Achievement, Looks

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.3538, ShandonPress

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• Grow up, Bailey." "That is precisely what I'm doing," Bailey says. "I don't care if you don't understand that. Staying here won't make me happy. It will make you happy because you're insipid and boring, and an insipid, boring life is enough for you. It's not enough for me. It will never be enough for me. So I'm leaving. Do me a favor and marry someone who will take decent care of the sheep.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Growing Up, Sheep, Leaving

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.290, Random House

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• Don’t you love quotations? I am immensely fond of them; a certain proof of erudition.... [I]f you should happen to write an insipid poem... send it to me, and my fiat shall crown you with immortality.

  Frances Brooke

  Writing, Crowns, Immortality

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• We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective. We will learn from Our Lord how our meekness should always be accompanied by humility and grace so as to attract hearts to Him and not cause anyone to turn away from Him.

  Vicente de Paúl

  Heart, Humility, Grace

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• If you have a boring, insipid, mouse-like life where you're just afraid to be or do anything, then you don't bring much into your next life. You don't bring much power.

  Federico Lenz

  Power, Next, Boring

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• A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Tree, Sound

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.264, Vintage

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• In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

  Maira Kalman

  Smart, Profound, Insightful

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• La mejor parte de la vida de uno consiste en sus amistades. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, carta a Joseph Gillespie, 13 th Of July de 1849 La amistad es insípida para quienes han experimentado el amor.

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, July, Letters

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• Cuando buscamos un caso de manual para el buen funcionamiento de la ciencia, la corrección de cierto error ofrece muchas más promesas que el establecimiento de una verdad probable. Las corazonadas confirmadas, por supuesto, son más optimistas que las hipótesis desacreditadas. Dado que las peores tradiciones de la escritura "popular" equiparan falsamente la instrucción con la dulzura y la luz, nuestra literatura promocional abunda en insípidos relatos al modo heroico, aunque las duras historias de decepción y pérdida ofrecen una visión más profunda de una metodología que el célebre filósofo Karl Popper etiquetó en su día como "conjetura y refutación".

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Decepción, Escritura, Pérdida

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). "El Brontosaurio: Reflexiones en Historia Natural", p.437, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders insipid, nor the soldier, of whom it makes a coward, nor the woman whose beauty and sensibility it mars, nor the mother, who has a son to lose, nor the rulers of men, who have no surer pledge of the fidelity of their subjects than religion.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Madre, Hijo, Hombres

  "The Genius of Christianity". Book by François-René de Chateaubriand, Part IV, Book VI, Chapter XII. Translated by Charles I. White, D.D. Baltimore: John Murphy, 1871, p. 665, 1802.

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• La amistad es insípida para quienes han experimentado el amor.

  François de La Rochefoucauld

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• For wisest ends this universal Power Gave appetites, from whose quick impulse life Subsists, by which we only live, all life Insipid else, unactive, unenjoy'd. Hence to this peopled earth, which, that extinct, That flame for propagation, soon would roll A lifeless mass, and vainly cumber heaven.

  John Armstrong

  Flames, Heaven, Earth

  John Armstrong (1770). “The forced marriage, a tragedy. Sketches: or, Essays on various subjects, by Launcelot Temple, Esq”

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• Nuestra colección de hombres es muy antigua, están en mi lista así: Un hombre sensato, un poco oxidado, un galán bastante peor por el uso, un coxcomb extremadamente destrozado, un caballero bonito muy insípido, un baronet muy solemne, un escudero muy gordo, un petimetre muy afectado, un abogado erudito en Coke sobre Littleton, pero que no sabe nada de "caminos largos para casarse como se quiera", un heredero aparente, muy torpe; cuál de estos me echará un ojo favorable no lo sé.

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Ojo, Hombres, Largo

  Elizabeth Montagu, Emily J. Climenson (2011). "Elizabeth Montagu, la reina de los Bluestockings: Her Correspondence from 1720 to 1761", p.31, Cambridge University Press

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