Quotes with high-minded

Quotes 441 till 450 of 450.

  • Hitopadesa Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Ambrose Bierce Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • E. F. Schumacher An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
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  • Andre Breton Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
    Original: Tout porte à croire qu'il existe un certain point de l'esprit d'où la vie et le mort, le réel et l'imaginaire, le passé et le futur, le communicable et l'incommunicable, le haut et le bas cessent d'être perçus contradictoirement.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Brad Schneider If I wasn't serving in Congress, I've always wanted to be a high school teacher. Specifically, I want to teach a course on modern American history and use Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury as a primary text.
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  • Carlos Slim In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.
    Carlos Slim
    Mexican business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1940 - )
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Helen Keller Never bend your head. Keep it always high. Look the world straight in the eye.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Ambrose Bierce The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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