Quotes 441 till 460 of 504.
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War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
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Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.
Source: La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001) -
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
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We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.
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We have an evolutionary revulsion from slime, the site of our biologic origins. Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
Source: We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century (2015) 68 -
We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.
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We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.
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Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.
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What a new face courage puts on everything!
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What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.
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What poor people go through, it's amazing they don't do more violent things! If they'd just give you a little dignity, it might help you stand it better. They suffer no heat, no electricity, while you're working, but then you've got to face all the insults, too.
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What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
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What you're getting excited about is not A face, but a feminine face.
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When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
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When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we face today. We didn't give bacteria credit for being able to change and adapt so fast.
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When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.
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