Quotes 3161 till 3180 of 4242.
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The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
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The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
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The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
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The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
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The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.
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The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
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The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.
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The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.
A Pictorial Biography -
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
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The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.
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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
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The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
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The object of art is to give life a shape.
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The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.
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The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
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The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
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The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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The only prudence in life is concentration.
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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
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