Quotes 2421 till 2440 of 2849.
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They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called 'war' too. And there will still be no conventional war.
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They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
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They who are most weary of life, and yet are most unwilling to die, are such who have lived to no purpose, - who have rather breathed than lived.
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They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.
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They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.
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Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
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Things which have most hold on us, as the concealment of our few possessions, are often a mere nothing. It is a nothing which our imagination magnifies into a mountain.
Source: Pensees (1669) -
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends
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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.
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This American system of ours. call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.
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This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.
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This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.
Source: Engleby (2007) -
This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the Earth.
Source: Remark to Galeazzo Ciano (19 December 1937) quoted in The Book of Italian Wisdom (2003) by Antonio Santi, p. 50 -
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
Source: Man and Superman (1903) Epistle dedicatory -
This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
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This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
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