Quotes 101 till 120 of 132.
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The Mandelbrot set covers a small space yet carries a large number of different implications. Is it a fitting epitaph? Absolutely.
New Scientist interview -
The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
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The most important thing when ill, is to never lose heart.
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The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.
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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
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There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
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They say my verse is sad: no wonder.
Its narrow measure spans
Rue for eternity, and sorrow
Not mine, but man's.
This is for all ill-treated fellows
Unborn and unbegot,
For them to read when they're in trouble
And I am not.More Poems (1936) -
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Notes on the Next War (1935) -
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
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To hate and to fear is the be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.
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To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
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Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.
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War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
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We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.
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We have already begun to fly; several persons, here and there, have found the secret to fitting wings to themselves, of setting them in motion, so that they are held up in the air and are carried across streams.... The art of flying is only just being born; it will be perfected, and some day we will go as far as the moon.
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