Quotes 161 till 180 of 216.
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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: ''There is life, but it's not for you.''
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There are a lot of billionaires in Silicon Valley, but in the end, we are all heading to the same place. If given the choice between making a lot of money or finding a way to make people live longer, what do you choose?
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There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.
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There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.
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There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
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There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.
Permaculture: A Designers Manual chapter 14.10 -
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
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There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.
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This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Thought the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
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Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.
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To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
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