Quotes 4281 till 4300 of 4321.
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Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than today.
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Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
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Our civilization is characterized by the word ''progress.'' Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only
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Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.
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Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
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Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.
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Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
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Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.
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Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.
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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
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