Quotes 341 till 360 of 6958.
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To those of my race who... underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say, 'Cast down your bucket where you are'—cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded.
Address at Atlanta International Exposition, Atlanta, Ga., 18 September 1895 -
Today we are faced with the preeminent fact that, if civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships... the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world, at peace.
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Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Manners from Heaven: A Divine Guide to Good Behaviour (1984) ch. 7 -
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
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Variety is the very spice of live, I that gives it all its flavour.
The Timepiece 606 -
We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
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We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes mismatches between old expectations and current realities.
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We are all experts in our own little niches.
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We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that ''we choose death.''
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We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
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We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
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We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
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When a good man is hurt all who would be called good must suffer with him.
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When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
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When all else fails, complicate matters.
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