Quotes 861 till 880 of 5007.
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Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders.
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Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
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Creative life is characterized by spontaneous mutability: it brings forth unknown issues, impossible to preconceive.
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Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after.
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Cummings' career as a writer - and a painter - was as wobbly as his love life. He tried his hand at playwriting, satirical essays, and even a dance scenario for Lincoln Kirsten.
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Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
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Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.
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Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.
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Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
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Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.
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Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
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Death hath so many doors to let out life.
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Death is a million times preferable to ten more days of this life
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Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
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Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
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Death is not the ultimate tragedy in life. The ultimate tragedy is to die without discovering the possibilities of full growth.
Good Housekeeping November 1989, p. 92
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