Quotes 12621 till 12640 of 13894.
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What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.
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What we are after is the ROOT and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds body feel and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.
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What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
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What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
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What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
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What we have to do now is not to forget these people and places when all the cameras are not there. I think that's the most important message I can say to the American people right now.
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What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.
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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
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What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.
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What we need to do is replace the entire tax code. I do not think it makes sense to say, 'Let's just grab money from, quote, the wealthy'... The issue is the tax code's rotten and we should start truly over with a simple code that is fair and transparent.
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What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
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What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
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What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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