Quotes 2001 till 2020 of 2457.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
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To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
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To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never - I repeat - never under any conditions face the facts.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed. That can make life a garden.
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To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.
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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.
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To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.
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To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
― Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
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To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
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To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
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To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
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To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.
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To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.
Source: Consider the Lobster (2005) 157 -
To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.
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