Quotes 401 till 420 of 461.
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Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
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We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity.... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
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We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.
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We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
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We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
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We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth.
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We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
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We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least.
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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.
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We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). We can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession of a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail- period!
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We physicians who shepherd human life from birth to death have a moral imperative to resist with all our being the drift toward the brink. The threatened inhabitants on this fragile planet must speak out for those yet unborn, for posterity has no lobby with politicians.
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We really have everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
Source: The Canterville Ghost -
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals.
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We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.
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We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.
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