Quotes 1941 till 1960 of 8617.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question ''Have we anything to eat?'' will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.
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Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.
An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) XIX, 15, 1 -
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ''ye cannot enter the kingdom of God.'' One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
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Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
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Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
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Experience is a great teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
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Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.
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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
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Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
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Facebook's the real deal. Nobody can buy Facebook now. Everybody has taken an angle at it. But Facebook may be the place that organizes everybody's personal information. It's got a very good chance of being that.
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Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?
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Failure - The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
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