Quotes 4301 till 4320 of 4321.
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The only thing worse than being blind is that you do have sight but no vision .
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The perfect no-stress environment is the grave. When we change our perception we gain control. The stress becomes a challenge, not a threat. When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable.
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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
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The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice.
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There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet - two clarionets.
The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
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There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
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There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
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These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.
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Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
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To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
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To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.
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Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
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We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.
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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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What is a better way to prove that your methods work than by winning? I have proved that my methods work.
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What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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