Quotes 381 till 400 of 726.
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One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
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One thing about school - I always had this attitude that I was in school to learn, and attempted to do whatever was involved in that process, while school had this attitude that I was there to earn grades, which I couldn't care less about. Unsurprisingly, my grades weren't very good.
Bram Cohen: Creator of BitTorrent, WrongPlanet.net, undated; accessed March 9, 2006, 17:01 (UTC) -
Only a fraction of book learning will seep into practical life anyhow; and the more foolish the theory, the less of it.
On War (1832) Ch. 23 -
Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
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Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods - moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former - but no opinion.
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Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.
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Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.
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Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.
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Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them.
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Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
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Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.
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Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
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Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.
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Peace has her victories no less renowned than war.
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Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.
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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
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Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war.
Letter to Cromwell -
People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.
Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 277 -
People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.
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