Quotes 761 till 780 of 1211.
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The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.
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The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.
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The future always comes as a surprise, but political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial judgment of what that surprise may be. And for my part I cannot but believe that a main unexpected thing of the future is the return of Islam.
The Great Heresies (1938) H. III -
The gap between the rich and the poor cannot keep growing without nothing being done about it.
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The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion.
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The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
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The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
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The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
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The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.
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The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.
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The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.
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