Quotes 1421 till 1440 of 5049.
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
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For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
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For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.
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For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.
Source: De Consolatione Philosophia Book 2, prose 4 -
For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
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For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.
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For me, it's just about keeping the standards up. We're a small country, so we have to punch above our weight. I'm not a great man for doing something just because it's Irish, and you never know what's going to work. But as long as we keep the standards up, people will continue to invest in films. It's as simple as that.
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For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.
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For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
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For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.
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For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?
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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
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For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.
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For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
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For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.
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For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
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