Quotes 6181 till 6200 of 10234.
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Perhaps by this time the 14th century was not quite sane. If enlightened self-interest is the criterion of sanity, in the verdict of Michelet, no epoch was more naturally mad.
A Distant Mirror -
Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
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Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.
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Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.
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Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
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Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.
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Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.
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Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.
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Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.
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Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.
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Personally i'm always ready to learn, although i do not always like being taught.
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Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.
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Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
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Personally, I've never been attracted to danger. It's not my sort of thing. I am more attracted to pubs and cafes. The known, safe and comfortable world.
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Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
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Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body; it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
Sports Illustrated Vol 13, Is. 13 (26-12-1960) -
Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
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Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
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