Quotes 21 till 40 of 717.
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I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ''What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.''
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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
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If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.
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If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.
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Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.
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Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
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Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
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So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
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The doctors realized very clearly that their minds and emotions were changing from day to day. On the one hand they were healing the patient, and on the other it looked as if they were healing themselves too. It was this chief surgeon who first volunteered to offer his skin when grafting began.
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The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
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To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.
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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
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'Tis the last rose of summer, left blooming alone; all her lovely companions are faded and gone.
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A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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