Quotes 781 till 800 of 885.
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We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
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We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
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We have too often been expected to speak
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We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
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We may admit that our groping is often inspired, but we must be on our guard against the belief, however deeply felt, that our inspiration carries any authority, divine or otherwise.
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We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.
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We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
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We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
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We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
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We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.
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We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.
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We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1996) 340 -
We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.
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We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is "one and one." We forget that we still have to make a study of "and.".
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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
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