Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately.
A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it.
I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them.
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
His music was direct from his heart and brain in the purest form possible.
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.
