Quotes 3941 till 3960 of 4622.
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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
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To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea.
To Die for the People (1972) -
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
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To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
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To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.
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To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.
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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
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To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
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To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: Sure John and I are more than quit.
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To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.
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To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
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To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation is a tougher question than many folks realize.
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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.
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To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
Timbuktu (2010) 59 -
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
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To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.
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To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.
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