Quotes 2581 till 2600 of 4321.
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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
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One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.
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One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.
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One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.
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One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the 'inner contradictions' of such a system.
In Defence Of Politics Ch. 5, A Defence Of Politics Against Technology, p -
One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
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One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.
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One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
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One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order.
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
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One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is better than 50 half-finished tasks
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One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
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One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
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Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
The Amis collection: selected non-fiction (1990)
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