Quotes 181 till 200 of 312.
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The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
Engleby (2007) -
The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation.
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
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The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia.
Multiple Personality: an Experimental Investigation into Human Individuality (1904) -
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the ''genius'' of the personage, the greater the profit.
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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain.
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The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.
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The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.
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The first Rudiments of Morality, broach'd by skilful Politicians, to render Men useful to each other as well as tractable, were chiefly contrived that the Ambitious might reap the more Benefit from, and govern vast Numbers of them with the greater Ease and Security.
The Fable of the Bees An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue, p. 33 -
The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
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The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.
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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
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The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.
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The greater the burden a man takes upon his shoulders, the stronger he must be to carry it. No words are unmentionable, no action or horror beyond powers of description, if one is equal to them.
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The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.
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