Quotes 2601 till 2620 of 3972.
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The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
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The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them.
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The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
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The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.
Two essays: On anger, New men, new women : some thoughts on nonviolence -
The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
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The frightful casualties appalled me. The so-called good fighting generals of the war appeared to me to be those who had a complete disregard for human life. There were of course exceptions and I suppose one was Plumer; I had only once seen him and I had never spoken to him.
Regarding the generals of the First World War. 1 -
The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
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The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
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The funniest line in English is ''Get it?'' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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The future belongs to you, but it can only belong to you if you participate and take charge.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
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The garden where you sit Has never a need of flowers, For you are the blossoms And only a fool or the blind Would fail to know it.
Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 119 -
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
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The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing.
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The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
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The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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