Quotes 3741 till 3760 of 5500.
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The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.
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The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.
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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
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The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
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The added work load of a degree has made me focus a lot more when I am in work.
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The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
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The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
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The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
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The aphorism as a man thinketh in his heart so is he contains the secret of life.
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000) p. 4; Lee here quotes Proverbs 23:7 As he thinketh -
The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
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The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
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The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
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The attainments of the parent do not descend in the blood of his children, nor is the progress of man to be considered as a physical mutation of the species.
Source: An Essay on the History of Civil Society I,I -
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
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The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
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