Quotes 161 till 180 of 1211.
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As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
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As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
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As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (2004) -
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
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As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.
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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
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As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.
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At last now you can be what the old cannot recall and the young long for in dreams, yet still include them all.
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At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
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Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
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Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it.
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Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.
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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
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Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
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Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.
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Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
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Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be.
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Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.
On War (1832) -
Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.
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