Quotes 17041 till 17060 of 25371.
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The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.
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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
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The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.
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The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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The chief requisites for a courtier are a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
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The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
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The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river is yet absolutely fresh, just from the source. He knows the truth, but he does not know that he knows.... His knowledge is not yet aware. It is innocent. It is simply there, as a matter of fact. And he is not separate from his knowledge; he is his knowledge. He has not mind, he has simple being.
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The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future.
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The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
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The children should never be excluded from what I am doing and should never have the feeling of being part of an audience.
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
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The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.
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The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.
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The churches... have lost much of their authority over youth because they have refused to re-examine their religious sanctions and their dogmatic preaching in the light of modern physiology, psychology and sociology.
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