Quotes 6021 till 6040 of 6069.
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Our civilization is characterized by the word ''progress.'' Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.
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Physician - One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
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Road: A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.
The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
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Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
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Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
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The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.
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The are and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.
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The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have this capacity do not possess it. Warmth of heart, impulsiveness, pity are not enough.
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The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
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The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it.
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The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice-any choice will be the right one.
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The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
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The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
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