Quotes 5361 till 5380 of 5418.
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I've left Boro in the Premiership, which was always what I wanted to do. Actually that's not quite true. I took them to three cup finals, where they'd never been before. But I had set my eyes on being the first manager in their history to deliver a major trophy.
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If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
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Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
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It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
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It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
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It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.
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Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.
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Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction.
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Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
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Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
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My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
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My fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well been documented, are various other parts of my body.
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.
Source: Thomas Jefferson 49 -
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
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No respectable woman has a lover until she has a husband.
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Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
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