Quotes 2701 till 2720 of 3662.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
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The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference.
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The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.
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The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
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The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
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The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.
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The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
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The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslapping, and many other ways of winning friends.
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The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
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The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
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The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
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The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments.
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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.
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