Quotes 11861 till 11880 of 12035.
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Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
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Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
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Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary -
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
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Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
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Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.
Source: Referring to Arturo Ui (representing Adolf Hitler), in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1941) -
Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man - and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.''
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Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
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Every good servant does not all commands.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
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Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
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Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin ''helping'' them. Such a world does not exist - never has.
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Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness - by making the ultimate escape from life. - No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.
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For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.
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