Quotes 1641 till 1660 of 8447.
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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
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By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.
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By far the best way I know to engage the religious sensibility, the sense of awe, is to look up on a clear night.
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006) -
By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.
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By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
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By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
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By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
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By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
Letters and Soc. Aims -
By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.
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By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of ''I am afraid,'' we say, ''I don't want to,'' or ''I don't know how,'' or ''I can't.''
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By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?
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By thinking through the grilling process while still in the kitchen, you can easily gather all of the items that you might need and conveniently carry them to the outdoors area.
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Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.
Pensees (1669) -
Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.
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Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.
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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
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Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.
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Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
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Can we ever really know anyone well? Let's just say we often found ourselves in each other's company and neither of us minded.
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