Quotes 301 till 320 of 6709.
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The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
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The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.
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The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Source: Second State of the Union Address, 11-01-1962 -
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
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The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.
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The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.
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The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
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There are three constants in life: change, choice and principles.
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There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound by shallows and in misery.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.
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There is no passion to be found in playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
Source: My Best Short Stories (2014) 75 -
There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.
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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
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