Quotes 2221 till 2240 of 2595.
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Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
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Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
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Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.
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Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious.
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Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
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War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.
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Watch over your child, as it struggles for breath on the outermost verge of life, or see your wife follow the child to that outermost verge, beside herself for anxiety and sleeplessness, - then love will teach you that life comes first.
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We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.
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We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than that.
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
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We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina.
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We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.
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We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.
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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
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We are God's children. We are Christians first, and then what we do flows from that.
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We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.
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We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
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