Quotes 921 till 940 of 1115.
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They who are most weary of life, and yet are most unwilling to die, are such who have lived to no purpose, - who have rather breathed than lived.
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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Notes on the Next War (1935) -
They've hit us and we've got to hit back hard, and I'm not just talking about the terrorists.
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Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.
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This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.
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This is the year which people will talk about
This is the year which people will be silent about. The old see the young die.
The foolish see the wise die. The earth no longer produces, it devours.
The sky hurls down no rain, only iron.Poems, 1913-1956 Finland 1940 [Finnland 1940] (1940), trans. Sammy -
This sea will never die, neither will it ever grow old, nor cease to be blue, nor in the dawn cease to lift up its hills and let the slim black ship of Dionysos come sailing in with grapevines up the mast.
Middle of the World (1929) -
Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
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Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.
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Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.
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Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
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Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
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To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child, when his parents die, the past dies.
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To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
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To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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