Quotes 461 till 480 of 652.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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The highest virtue is always against the law.
Conduct of Life (1876) Worship -
The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
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The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its liking. It finds other Ideas already in residence, and picks fights or forms alliances. The alliances build new structures, to defend themselves against intruders.
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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
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The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness.
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The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
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The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.
Resisting Representations Outlaw Culture -
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
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The month of January, we were number one. Now, this is something we're proud of, because we recognize we're up against a formidable operation there at CNN.
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
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The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.
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The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing - and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.
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The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters.
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The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices - against half the human race - that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.
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The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all.
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
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