Quotes 3581 till 3600 of 4622.
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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.
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The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
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The wonder we often express at our neighbours keeping dull company, would lessen if we reflected that most people seek companions less to be talked to, than to talk.
Thoughts (1754) -
The words ''Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,'' which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies. This appeal is what attracts us, and ultimately what makes us despair when we begin to understand how seldom movies are more than this.
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The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.
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The world has always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.
2008 Democratic National Convention, August 27, 2008 -
The world has more winnable people than ever before… but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed.
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The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
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The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
PENN Address (2004) -
The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.
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The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.
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The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
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The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert (1848) p.184 -
The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.
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The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.
The Big Picture: An American Commentary (1991)
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