Quotes 1861 till 1880 of 2435.
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The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
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The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
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The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.
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The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within - and make the point: This can be done.
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
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The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do reflect the values you want, because we don't know what's going to matter in the future.
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The whole idea of genre and categorising films is a critic's construct. For me, I just try and make stories and see where they go, but there's nothing wrong with horror; there's nothing wrong with romantic comedies.
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The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.
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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of ''nothing attempted, nothing gained'' and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
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The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives.
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
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The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy.
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