Quotes 2801 till 2820 of 3448.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu.
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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
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To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
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To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation.
Letter to Sir Horace Mann (27-05-1776) -
To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.
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To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.
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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
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To be honest, as this world goes, is to be. One man picked out of ten thousand.
Hamlet 2,2 -
To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that when I drive around in my car, I'll listen to college lectures on philosophy and literature and world history, things like that, to kind of catch up on the college experience I missed.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
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To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless.
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To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
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To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.
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To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.
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To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
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To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
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To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.
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