Quotes 21 till 40 of 5709.
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Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
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Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
Bernard M. Baruch
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
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Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
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If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.
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If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.
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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
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There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.
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There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
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There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
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There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.
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There's this misconception that I've been turning down roles. It's just not true. The reality is, there was nothing for me to do, nobody was calling, the phone wasn't ringing.
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Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
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20 years on I'm not that interested in charity. I'm interested in justice. There's a difference. Africa needs justice as much as it needs charity.
Equality for Africa is a big idea. It's a big expensive idea.PENN Address (2004)
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