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In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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In reality, it is more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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In the long run, we are all dead.
Source: A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923) Ch.3 -
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
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In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the
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In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and ends only with death.
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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
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It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
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It is better to be a fool than to be dead.
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It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.
Source: Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 161 -
It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
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It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
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It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
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It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
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It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.
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