Quotes 41 till 60 of 111.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.
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Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route
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He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
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Healing comes only from that which leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglements with ego....
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However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.
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I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing.
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
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If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
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Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible.
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In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of ''freedom,'' like a bastard brother of reform.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
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It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (2007) 162 -
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
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Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.
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Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
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