Quotes 261 till 280 of 659.
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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.
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In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
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In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.
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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
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In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours.
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 0 min 45 sec -
In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.
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In youth one marvels that man remains at so low a stage of civilisation, in later life one marvels that he has got so far.
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Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.
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Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
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Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.A Shropshire Lad (1896) -
Into my heart on air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those?
A Shropshire Lad no. 40, l. 1 (1896) -
Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?
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It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put on the troubled seas of thought.
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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
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It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.
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It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.
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It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.
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It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
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