Quotes 4541 till 4560 of 5903.
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The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
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The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
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The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.
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The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.
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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
Works (1913) IV, 315 -
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
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The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.
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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
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The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
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The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
Original:Le savant n'est pas l'homme qui fournit les vraies réponses; c'est celui qui pose les vraies questions.
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The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea.
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The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
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The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
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