Quotes 741 till 760 of 4584.
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Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.
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Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last - more than passion or even sex!
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Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.
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Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality.
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Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.
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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
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Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.
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Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
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Children have more need of models than of critics
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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
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China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.
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Christianity is the only true and perfect religion, and in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and happy. And a better knowledge of this religion is to be acquired by reading the Bible than in any other way.
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Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.
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Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
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Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.
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Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
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