Quotes 301 till 320 of 8601.
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.
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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
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It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.
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It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.
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It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.
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It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trenchcoat
Badge out, laid off
Says he's got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
But you're doin' it againSource: Bringing It All Back Home (1965) -
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
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Lack of knowledge concerning all the factors and the failure to include them in our integral imposes false conclusions.
Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
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Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.
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