Quotes 701 till 720 of 882.
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To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them.
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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
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To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.
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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why - but the editorialists forget it - terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.
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Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope.
Rolling Stones The Immortals (2004) -
Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
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Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life.
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Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends boyfriends - and he accepts it.
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Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
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Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
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Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
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Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.
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Until you become a woman you don't know the things that come with being a woman.
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Upon awakening he discovered that he was no longer a wooden puppet, but that he had become instead a boy, like all other boys.
Pinocchio (1892) -
Very few movies remain in public memory as landmark films, and I want to see whether '3 Idiots' will be up there with some of the wonderful films that have come out of this country... Hopefully, we'll come to know in a few years whether it can become one of the great films.
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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
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Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.
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