Quotes 921 till 940 of 1419.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.
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The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
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The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
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The chief incalculable in war is the human will.
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The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
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The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.
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The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo.
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The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
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The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.
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