Quotes 1621 till 1640 of 3662.
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
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Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
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Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others, and others love to us.
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Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.
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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
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Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?
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Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.
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Luminous quotations alone, by their interest, for the dullness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.
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Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.
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Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
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Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.
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Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.
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Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.
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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
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Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.
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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
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