Quotes 2801 till 2820 of 3662.
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The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
Source: Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901) -
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
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The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
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The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
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The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.
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The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.
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The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.
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The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert (1848) p.184 -
The worst of all conditions in which a belligerent can find himself is to be utterly defenseless.
Source: On War (1832) -
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
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The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it - a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes - will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
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The worth of everey conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
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The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
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Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.
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Theorists can create all sorts of theories which go beyond the Standard Model. But there's not one bit of experimental evidence to point out which way you should go.
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There are a lot of laws from Europe about employing people which are absolute nonsense.
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There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
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There are books ... which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.
Source: Works (1913) -
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
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There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.
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