Quotes 3181 till 3200 of 4584.
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The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.
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The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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The doctor I would want for myself or for anyone else I cared about would be one who understands that disease is more than just a clinical entity; it is an experience and a metaphor, with a message that must be listened to.
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The doctors have given me a green light. They have said that my heart is significantly more efficient today than it was four months ago. And I am anxious to be the next president of the United States.
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The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
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The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
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The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.
A Crash Course for Central Bankers, Foreign Policy (September/October 2000) -
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
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The emphasis on sorcery reflected accusations by the authorities more than it did actual practice. Being threatened, the Church responded by virulent persecution.
A Distant Mirror -
The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
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The end of times has always been a fascination. But post 9/11, pretty much everybody will admit to having it on their minds more frequently than when they were a kid.
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The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.
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The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations.
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The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life.
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The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
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The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.
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The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
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The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
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