Quotes 901 till 920 of 25361.
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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
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Real Christianity is lovely. There is a quality about a Spirit-filled, radiant Christian that draws and attracts others and causes them to ''enjoy favor with all the people.'' The truth is that the gospel is not nearly as offensive as some of its proponents!
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Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
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Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?
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Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
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Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
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Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
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Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at TV. They had loneliness and knew what to do with it. They knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.
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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
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She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.
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Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.
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Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.
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Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea.
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Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.
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Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894.
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