Quotes 2141 till 2160 of 3120.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.
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The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.
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The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.
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The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
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The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms.
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The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing, when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors.
Source: On liberty (1859) -
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
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The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
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The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
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The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
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The first proof of a person's incapacity to achieve, is their endeavoring to fix the stigma of failure on others.
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The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
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The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
Source: My Study Windows (1871) -
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
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The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
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The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched unfledged comrade.
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The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Source: Sceptical Essays
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