Quotes 1941 till 1960 of 2595.
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The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.
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The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. There is no other way.
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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.
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The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody who comes in out of the blue and says the truth. Everything else is table manners.
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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
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The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.
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The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.
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The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
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The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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The person I miss most is the one I could have been.
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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.
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The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
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The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.
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