Quotes 21 till 40 of 46.
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It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.
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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
Zora Neale Hurston
American novelist, short story writer, folklorist and anthropologist (1891 - 1960) -
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think.
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Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
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People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
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Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.
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Say Yes to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say Yes to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say Yes to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.
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Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the staircase and whom you do not like to greet.
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The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make marriage a joy
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The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
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The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.
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The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.
We cannot live without our lives -
The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
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There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
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Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
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We are so presumptuous that we would wish to be known by all the world, even by people who shall come after, when we shall be no more; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six neighbors delights and contents us.
Pensees (1669) -
We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.
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