Quotes 501 till 520 of 681.
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The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.
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The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.
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The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
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The music speaks for itself. You either like it or you don't, or you're somewhere in between. That doesn't change whether I'm in the band or not.
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The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
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The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished - it is no longer secure in its instincts.
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The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.
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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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The only true criticism of high art is silence, silence as grand as heaven itself.
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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
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The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
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The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.
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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
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The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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