Quotes 281 till 300 of 401.
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The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
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The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
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The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
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The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.
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The concept is always clothed with emotion, that is to say, with hope, or with fear, or with hatred, or with eager aspiration.
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.
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The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
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The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.
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The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant.
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The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.
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The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.
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The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.
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