Quotes 21 till 40 of 41.
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Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.
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Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation.
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Much of the pain and pleasure of mankind arises from the conjectures which every one makes of the thoughts of others; we all enjoy praise which we do not hear, and resent contempt which we do not see.
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No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.
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Owning a variety of asset classes means that some part of your portfolio will be doing well when the cyclical turmoil arises. A broadly diversified portfolio includes large capitalization stocks, small cap, emerging markets, fixed income, real estate and commodities.
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Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.
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Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
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That's what I call meditation. You simply stand aloof and just see the mind disappearing, like a cloud on a faraway horizon, leaving the sky clean and pure. And in that state arises your consciousness in its full glory, in its full celebration.
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The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
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The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.
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The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.
Storage and Stability Part V, Ch. XIX, The Reservoir Plan and Tradition, -
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
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The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.
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The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
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There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
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There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
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This is Sunday, and the question arises, what'll I start tomorrow?
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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
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We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.
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