Quotes 761 till 780 of 885.
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Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence.
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War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.
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Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
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We all knew there was just one way to improve our odds for survival: train, train, train. Sometimes, if your training is properly intense it will kill you. More often - much, much more often - it will save your life.
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.
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We build schools and give government loans and grants to college kids; for those of us who are parents, tuition will often be the last big subsidy we give the children we've raised.
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We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.
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We felt often that we were perceived as mothers trying to be lawyers, while a male colleague of ours who had a young child was perceived as a lawyer who also happened to be a father.
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We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians.
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We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.
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We have finally started to notice that there is real curative value in local herbs and remedies. In fact, we are also becoming aware that there are little or no side effects to most natural remedies, and that they are often more effective than Western medicine.
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