Quotes 5301 till 5320 of 6261.
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
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This is the word tightrope. Now imagine
a man, inching across it in the space
between our thoughts. He holds our breath. There is no word net. You want him to fall, don't you?
I guessed as much; he teeters but succeeds.
The word applause is written all over him.Source: Standing Female Nude (1985) -
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought
Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land
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This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!
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This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.
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This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
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This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
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This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
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This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.
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Those guys were in hog heaven, man. They had a weapons catalog, What's G-12 do, Tommy? Says here it destroys everything but the fillings in their teeth, helps pay for the war effort. Well, shit, pull that one up! Pull up G-12, please. ] ...Cool. What's G-13 do?
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Those minute critics who seem to think that when they detect the occasional errors of a great man, they in some degree reduce him to their own level.
Source: History of civilization II, 314 -
Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.
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Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.
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Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.
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Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
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Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.
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Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis ''good works'' make the man.
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Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.
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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.
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