Quotes 601 till 620 of 683.
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We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.
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We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
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We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.
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We are stronger and more resourceful than we know, and we can endure much more than we think we can.
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We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
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We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.
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We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.
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We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.
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We have lost the art of living; and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.
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We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
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We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
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We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ''censorship,'' we call it ''concern for commercial viability.''
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