Quotes 8121 till 8140 of 12035.
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The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.
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The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.
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The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.
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The brainwashing which has been going on for 150 years has also resulted in the replacement of intellectual activities and religion by ideologies and science....I have nothing against Marx, except that his theories do not explain what happened.
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976) -
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Long walk to Freedom -
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.
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The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
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The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.
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The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.
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The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
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The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!
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The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
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The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.
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The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
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The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the only legitimate object of good government.
Letter to Republicans, 31-03-1809 -
The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation.
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The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.
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The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
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The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
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