Quotes 261 till 280 of 3972.
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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
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A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
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A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
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A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
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A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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A man with few friends is only halfdeveloped; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed.
Youth and life (1913) -
A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
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A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.
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A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.
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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
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A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.
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A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
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A minority group has arrived only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
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A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
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A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.
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A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'
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A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.
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A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
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A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.
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