Quotes 19261 till 19280 of 25274.
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The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.
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The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.
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The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it.
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The universe is not friendly to despots, and they all perish sooner of later.
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The universe is so vast and so ageless that the life of one man can only be justified by the measure of his sacrifice.
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The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobilizable..
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The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.
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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.
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The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
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The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.
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The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.
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The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio.
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The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.
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The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and sits future is highly uncertain.
Source: Storage and Stability Part III, Ch. X, The Status of Gold and Silver, p. -
The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.
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The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.
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