Quotes 2461 till 2480 of 3762.
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The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
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The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.
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The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens of inherited wealth, the fragility of reputation, the folly of judging someone's life from the outside, and the tension between engaging with the world, with all its risks, and keeping a safe distance from danger.
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The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
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The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down as a failure.
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The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) -
The meat-and-potatoes work of world journalism is performed by the wire service reporters.
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The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
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The men who learn endurance are those who call the whole world brother.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately understands to be appropriate as a form of its political organization.
Source: Political Theology (1922) -
The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.
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The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty. The MDGs, with eight goals and a set of measurable time-bound targets, established a blueprint for tackling the most pressing development challenges of our time.
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The mind as well as the body must be not only strong but well disciplined in order to act with promptness and vigor in new and untried situations. It is hard to turn men's minds from the old and deeply worn channels in which they have long been flowing.
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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
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