Quotes 21 till 40 of 802.
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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
Nobody Knows My Name (1961) -
Art, the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.
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Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty - necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.
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Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
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Death robs the rich and relieves the poor.
Sparks from the philosopher's stone (1882) -
Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
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Every time a child says, ''I don't believe in fairies,'' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.
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Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an inhabitual way.
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Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.
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Human happiness depends mainly upon the improvement of small opportunities.
Sparks from the philosopher's stone (1882) -
I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.
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I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
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