Quotes 1681 till 1700 of 3972.
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Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.
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Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.
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Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.
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Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
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Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.
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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
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Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.
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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
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Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.
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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.
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Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
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Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid... There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.
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Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been.
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Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
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