Quotes 5221 till 5240 of 25411.
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Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.
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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ''ye cannot enter the kingdom of God.'' One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
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Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.
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Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.
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Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.
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Exercise your purchasing power as a consumer, volunteer and bring joy to those in need, and share your experiences, tell your stories, and inspire others along the way.
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Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.
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Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
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Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
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Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
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Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
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Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
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Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we're normally concerned about just doesn't matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it. Life becomes very simple, it's about moving in a certain direction - north if you're going north - staying warm and not getting eaten. That's it.
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Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
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