Quotes 441 till 460 of 624.
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The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
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The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.
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The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.
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The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service.
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The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.
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The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
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The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
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The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.
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The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
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The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
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The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.
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The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?
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The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
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The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.
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The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.
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The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking.
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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.
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The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
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