Quotes 1441 till 1460 of 1877.
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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 person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
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The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.
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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
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The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
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The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.
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The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.
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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.
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The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.
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The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy.
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The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers.
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The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
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The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.
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The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
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