Quotes 1641 till 1660 of 3762.
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Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it.
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Man's own youth is the world's youth; at least he feels as if it were, and imagines that the earth's granite substance is something not yet hardened, and which he can mould into whatever shape he likes.
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Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
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Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.
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Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes.
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Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.
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Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
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Many more people in the world are concerned with sports than with human rights.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p. 197 -
Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.
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Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not.
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Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And when you live it people may think you're crazy. It has been truthfully said that the world is equally shocked by one who repudiates Christianity as by one who practices it.
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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
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Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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