Quotes 921 till 940 of 1482.
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Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.
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Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.
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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
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Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.
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Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
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Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.
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Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.
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Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system's separate parts or any subassembly of the system's parts. There is nothing in the chemistry of a toenail that predicts the existence of a human being.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
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Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
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Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
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Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.
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Terri's death brings to a close a very tragic, human and personal event that has left everyone with a feeling of emptiness, regardless of what side of the issue you may have been on.
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Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together, with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights, or are used as an excuse for others to do so.
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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
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That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.
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That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.
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The ''self-image'' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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