Quotes 541 till 560 of 1211.
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Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
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Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.
Pensees (1669) -
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
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Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Marriage can wait, education cannot.
A Thousand Splendid Suns -
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.
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Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
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Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
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Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
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Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand.
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Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
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More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.
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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.
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Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
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