Quotes 701 till 720 of 5767.
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Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.
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Blackpool's illuminations are nothing if not splendid, and they are not splendid.
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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
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Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
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Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
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Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
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Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
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Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
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Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
Source: Wolkenatlas (2008) 357 -
Books tap the wisdom of our species - the greatest minds, the best teachers - from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.
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Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.
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