Quotes 4301 till 4320 of 4330.
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Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
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Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
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The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.
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The busiest man needs no more hours of rest than the idle.
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The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year - far less than the property value lost on a single day when 17 mansions slid down a hill in 2005 in Laguna Beach, Calif.
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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
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The logic of the heart is usually better than the logic of the head, and the consistency of sympathy is superior as rule for life to the consistency of the intellect.
Youth and life (1913) -
The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility.
For Americas Sake, speech 12 December 2006, Moyers on Democracy -
The only thing worse than being blind is that you do have sight but no vision .
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The perfect no-stress environment is the grave. When we change our perception we gain control. The stress becomes a challenge, not a threat. When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable.
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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
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The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice.
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There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet - two clarionets.
The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
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There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
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These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.
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To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
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To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.
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