Quotes 141 till 160 of 3972.
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Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.
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Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
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Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
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Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
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Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
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Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred - this is the law of eternal.
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
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No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
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Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.
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Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust.
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Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.
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One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
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Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living.
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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
The Gunslinger (1982) 145
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