Quotes 781 till 800 of 1482.
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Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
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Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.
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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
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Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet
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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't - it's human.
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Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.
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Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? ''And here is my good big centipede!'' If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.
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O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
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Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
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Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.
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Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!
Doctor Zhivago -
On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.'
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not to good and not quite all the time.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
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One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
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