Quotes 101 till 120 of 134.
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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's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.
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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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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) -
Trump is more performance artist than zealot. But he's finding enemies everywhere, whether they are judges of Mexican ancestry, parents of those killed in war, the current president, or children of immigrants. Whether or not he has a sense of decency, he is in grave danger of losing it.
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Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.
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Upon finding his quarry, he would learn what he could, make an evaluation, and act accordingly. Then he would tell his superiors whatever they wanted to hear, just as he always had.
Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede (1991) -
Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
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We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
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We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.
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