Quotes 4621 till 4640 of 4661.
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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
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My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.
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No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.
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No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
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Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
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Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.
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Our civilization is characterized by the word ''progress.'' Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only
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Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
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Patience: A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
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Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
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Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination.
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Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
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The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.
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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
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The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
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