Quotes 101 till 120 of 120.
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There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves.
The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959) -
Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.
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To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
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Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
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We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.
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What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.
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What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
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Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
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When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.
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When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.
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With the great part of rich people, the chief employment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
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You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day.
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Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
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A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten".
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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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The chief enemy of creativity is good taste.
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