Quotes 18901 till 18920 of 25137.
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The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.
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The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.... Recently, we've managed to wade a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting.
Source: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 03 min 55 sec -
The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
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The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible.
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The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.
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The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.
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The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
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The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.
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The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
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The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
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The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates, you could increase the efficiency of the tax code and create more incentives for people to invest.
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The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.
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The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.
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The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.
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The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
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The telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
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The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.
Source: Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure (1922) -
The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
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