Quotes 261 till 280 of 1211.
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Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.
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Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us - and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.
Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995) -
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
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For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
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For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?
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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
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Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.
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Friendship with our self is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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Friendship with ourself is all-important, because without it one cannot he friends with anyone else in the world.
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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
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From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
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Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
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God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
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God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.
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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
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Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.
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