Quotes 121 till 140 of 848.
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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
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Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.
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Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.
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But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.
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But so far, you know who's been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates it while calling for Israel's destruction and racing to develop atomic weapons to that end.
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But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens in everyday life.
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But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.
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But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
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Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
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Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
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Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.
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Cartels have spread and will spread as long as the world lacks an effective mechanism by which balanced expansion may be achieved without a resulting disruption of prices.
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Certainly the international community is putting a lot of pressure on Iran and making clear that its nuclear program must stop. If it stops with the sanctions, the combinations of sanctions, diplomacy, other pressures, I, as the prime minister of Israel, will be the happiest person in the world.
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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
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Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion, and in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy. And a better knowledge of this religion is to be acquired by reading the Bible than in any other way.
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