Quotes 4201 till 4220 of 5500.
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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
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The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.
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The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.
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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
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The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
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The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.
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The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
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The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.
An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) VII, 20, 2-4 -
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
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The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.
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The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.
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The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
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The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.
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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.
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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.
Philistine and Genius (1919)
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