Quotes 521 till 540 of 559.
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Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
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What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.
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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
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When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
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When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.
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When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.
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When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
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When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.
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When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
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Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game.
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With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
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