Quotes 701 till 720 of 4321.
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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
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Campus speech codes, that folly of the navel-gazing left, have increased the appeal of the right. Ideas must confront ideas. When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide.
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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
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Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?
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Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a fork in the road and trying to go both ways by straddling it.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
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Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow.
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Castro always used the boxers as a symbolic war against American values to demonstrate that they fight for something more than money.
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Cease to lament for that thou canst not help,
And study help for that which thou lament'st.Two gentlemen of Verona 3, 1. -
Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.
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Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last - more than passion or even sex!
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Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.
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Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality.
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Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
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Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.
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