Quotes 2101 till 2120 of 11267.
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Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.
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England still stands outside Europe. Europe's voiceless tremors do not reach her. Europe is apart and England is not of her flesh and body. But Europe is solid with herself.
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1920) -
English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power.
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Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
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Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.
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Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster.
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Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.
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Entrepreneurialism, to me, means being able to fail. And I believe that kind of leadership is not necessary only in business, but it's necessary for running countries, too. You've got to be able to believe in something strongly enough that you want to do it even if there's a risk of failure.
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Entrepreneurs go through real problems and come up with real solutions. It's not fake. You can do all the right things and still lose. You can do all the wrong things and still will.
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Epictetus goes much further when he asks: Why do we not lose our temper if someone tells us that we have a headache, while we do lose it if someone says there is anything wrong with our arguments or our choice?
Pensees (1669) -
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687) Preface -
Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?".
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Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parson's damn.
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Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.
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Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
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