Quotes 361 till 380 of 394.
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We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
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We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty - that is the test of living.
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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
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What dire effects from civil discord flow!
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What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
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What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?
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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
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Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
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Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
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