Quotes 3681 till 3700 of 3762.
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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.
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By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world by practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.
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Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
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Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.
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Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.
Referring to Arturo Ui (representing Adolf Hitler), in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1941) -
Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
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Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
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Due credit must be paid to the genius of the designers of ALGOL 60 who included recursion in their language and enabled me to describe my invention so elegantly to the world.
The Emperors Old Clothes -
Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin ''helping'' them. Such a world does not exist - never has.
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Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
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For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.
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For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces -a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
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He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
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Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
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Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
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I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
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I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
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