Quotes 2721 till 2740 of 4622.
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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
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One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
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One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
Lew Wallace
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One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
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One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.
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One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since.
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One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.
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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 of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the 'inner contradictions' of such a system.
In Defence Of Politics Ch. 5, A Defence Of Politics Against Technology, p -
One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
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One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.
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One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
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One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
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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.
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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
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