Quotes 401 till 420 of 15856.
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First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from the force of character.
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Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it
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Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
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Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
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From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all.
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Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.
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Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.
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Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
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Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.
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Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
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