Quotes 81 till 100 of 1785.
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It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are.
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Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
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Life is a first draft... with no rewrite.
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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
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Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals.
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Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
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Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.
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Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
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My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
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Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.
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No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.
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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
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Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
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People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.
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People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.
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