Quotes 18241 till 18260 of 25371.
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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
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The most accomplished way of using books at present is to serve them as some do lords, learn their titles, and then boast of their acquaintance.
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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
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The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
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The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.
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The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
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The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.
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The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.
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The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.
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The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
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The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.
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The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
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The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
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The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
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