Quotes 501 till 520 of 689.
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The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.
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The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
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The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
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The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.
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The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
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The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.
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The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
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The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
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The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.
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The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
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The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
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The male singers who had the same range I did, when I was growing up, didn't do much for me. But put on Nina Simone, Carmen McRae or Nancy Wilson, and I'd be in seventh heaven. Female vocalists just did more with their voices, and that's why I paid more attention to them.
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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.
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The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
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The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.
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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
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