Quotes 1221 till 1240 of 1714.
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
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The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.
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The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
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The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.
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The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) , p. 20 -
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
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The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.
Second Treatise of Government VI, sec. 57 -
The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
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The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
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The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different- to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
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The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
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