Quotes 761 till 780 of 3120.
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
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However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.
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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.
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However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
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Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
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Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.
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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.
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Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.
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Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
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Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
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Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions!
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Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
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Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.
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Human trafficking robs victims of their basic human rights, and it occurs right under our noses. Many efforts have been focused in other regions of the world, but this is a major problem here at home.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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Hundreds of years ago, the most beautiful women of Havana were only glimpsed stepping in or out of carriages on this street. The first foreign writers who arrived and saw this could never get past just how incredibly beautiful their feet were.
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Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
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Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.
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I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.
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