Quotes 41 till 60 of 66.
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Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.
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The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
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The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are.
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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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The only true criticism of high art is silence, silence as grand as heaven itself.
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The three grand essentials of happiness are: Something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
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There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.
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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.
The Sphere and Duties of Woman: A Course of Lectures (1848) -
To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.
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Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.
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War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
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We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.
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We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.
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What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
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When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.
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