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Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism. -- Abraham Kuyper
I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there. -- Brian Greene
Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic. -- John le Carre
Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief. -- William Vickrey
The House of Representatives was not designed to sit idly by and rubberstamp every piece of legislation sent their way by the Senate, especially legislation passed on a straight party line vote under the spurious policy of reconciliation. -- Neal Boortz
Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives. -- Vladimir Nabokov
We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, 'What is real?' Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. -- Philip K. Dick
All virtue which is impracticable is spurious. -- Edmund Burke
What does God think of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood? -- Clement of Alexandria
The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence. -- Saul Bellow
Sentimentality , the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel. -- James A. Baldwin
Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces. -- Gunnar Myrdal
There is something spurious about the very term 'a movie made for TV,' because what you make for TV is a TV program. -- Pauline Kael
We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together. -- Alan Watts
Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity -- Jonathon Porritt
What was it about that short creature with her wild hair and spurious air of purity and why would anyone much less two men love her and to such disastrous ends. -- Anna Godbersen
However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A lot of the distinctions that we make between drama and documentary are spurious. We're deeply confused about these issues. About the difference between the two, about where documentary ends and drama begins. -- Errol Morris
My ignorance would require a volume to itself. Between its covers would be preserved a record of the spurious model of all creation I had in my head, a prelapsarian construct, uncorrupted by the facts. -- Peter Blegvad
A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure. -- Theodor Adorno

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