Quotes 4681 till 4700 of 5261.
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We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America - as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.
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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
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We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
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We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.
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We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.
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We need to find ways to elevate the expectations, particularly of those individuals who may start off on a lower socioeconomic rung, who might be seen as disadvantaged. But, you know, the reason I say be seen as disadvantaged, it's because life is so short, and there's so much that can change.
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We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.
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We need to stop kicking the can down the road and rethink our entire tax system toward long-term, comprehensive tax reform.
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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.
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We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.
Source: Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010) Over contact met buitenaardsen -
We participate and are responsible for a lot of the things that happen to us. If you hate your job, you are much more likely to get sick and die at a younger age than someone who's happy at work and has a nice family life and is mentally well adjusted.
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We physicians who shepherd human life from birth to death have a moral imperative to resist with all our being the drift toward the brink. The threatened inhabitants on this fragile planet must speak out for those yet unborn, for posterity has no lobby with politicians.
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We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you have to do is play a couple of songs and then get off the stage because everything that trails it sounds stupid.
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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
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We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.
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We see a successful, elegant man now, but as a child, an adolescent, his life was not a done deal. Sidney respected his mistakes. When failure came, he never said, This is too difficult, too hard, he had the resiliency to try again. His life is somewhere between astounding and unbelievable.
Source: Comment on Sidney Poitier, as quoted in a press release at AARP (24 July 2008) -
We see North Koreans as automatons, goose-steeping at parades, doing mass gymnastics with fixed smiles on their faces - but beneath all that, real life goes on with the same complexity of human emotion as anywhere else.
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