Quotes 4221 till 4240 of 5903.
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
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The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
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The frightful casualties appalled me. The so-called good fighting generals of the war appeared to me to be those who had a complete disregard for human life. There were of course exceptions and I suppose one was Plumer; I had only once seen him and I had never spoken to him.
Source: Regarding the generals of the First World War. 1 -
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
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The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
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The future of TOMS is really creating a whole new business model of this one-for-one giving and expanding the TOMS model from shoes into other products as well.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.
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The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.
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The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavonic tribes.
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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
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The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.
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The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
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The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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