Quotes 9521 till 9540 of 13894.
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The curriculum of the school did not neglect India's cultural, analytical and scientific heritage, but was very involved also with the rest of the world.
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The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
The cynic says, ''One man can't do anything.'' I say, ''Only one man can do anything.''
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The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.
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The danger of growing up surrounded by endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.
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The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
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The day for progress by force has passed; it will be progress by ideas or not at all.
Source: The Great Illusion (1910) -
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.
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The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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The dead have been awakened - shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants - shall I crouch? the harvest's ripe - and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart.
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The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
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The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.
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The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.
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The definition of throwing your vote away is to go into that voting booth and vote for one of two parties that will not change the direction this country's going in.
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The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.
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The democratic process is always vulnerable and threatened by terrorists, by parties that do not believe in democracy.
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The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything - and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.
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The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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