Quotes 2981 till 3000 of 4321.
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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.
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The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.
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The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.
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The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.
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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
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The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
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The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
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The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
Engleby (2007) -
The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
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The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
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The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.
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The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I’ve read so often that I’ve internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.
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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.
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The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.
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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
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The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
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The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
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