Quotes 241 till 260 of 312.
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There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science.
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago.
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There is no evidence that super PACs have led to a greater percentage of negative ads.
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There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.
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There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
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There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
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There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure.
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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
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There is no greater way to ensure that universities remain a hotbed of leftist thought than to guarantee that professors knight their own successors. But that's basically how the Ph.D. system works, with sitting professors approving the work of would-be professors.
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There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.
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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
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