Quotes 22761 till 22780 of 25152.
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What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
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What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be ''man''!
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What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
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What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and what does she look like beyond the jacket she's wearing or the food she's not eating? What might we be doing, thinking, feeling about if we didn't think about body image, ever?
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What is true is true, and what is false is false...
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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
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What is uttered is finished and done with.
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What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.
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What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say ''I know'' instead of ''I am learning,'' and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
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What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician - these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.
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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?
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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are but tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 120 -
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four.
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What makes a regiment of soldiers a more noble object of view than the same mass of mob? Their arms, their dresses, their banners, and the art and artificial symmetry of their position and movements.
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