Quotes 17521 till 17540 of 25360.
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The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer.
Source: Cosmos (1980) -
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
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The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying
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The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: initiative, imagination, individuality, and independence.
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The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.
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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
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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.
Source: Two essays: On anger, New men, new women : some thoughts on nonviolence -
The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
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The freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
Source: From George Washington to Officers of the Army, 15-03-1783 -
The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.
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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
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The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
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The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched unfledged comrade.
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The frightful casualties appalled me. The so-called good fighting generals of the war appeared to me to be those who had a complete disregard for human life. There were of course exceptions and I suppose one was Plumer; I had only once seen him and I had never spoken to him.
Source: Regarding the generals of the First World War. 1 -
The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
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The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011 was an immense tragedy that sparked a global response. The international community came forward with aid to the victims and came together to address the broader concerns about nuclear security and safety.
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