Quotes 10041 till 10060 of 12035.
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To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
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To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
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To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
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To fail to love is not to exist at all.
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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
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To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.
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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
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To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.
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To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
Source: Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 108 -
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
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To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
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To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
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To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.
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To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.
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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
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