Quotes 6921 till 6940 of 10331.
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The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ''Thus far and no farther.''
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The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible of a final military solution.
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.
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The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.
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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
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The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
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The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
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The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
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The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
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The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.
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The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.
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The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
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The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.
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