Quotes 2761 till 2780 of 10005.
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How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
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How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
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How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.
Source: Death on the Nile (1937) -
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible.
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However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.
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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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However much one tries to suppress the will of the people they eventually will have the last word.
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However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
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However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
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However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.
Source: Who Is Man? (1965) -
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
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Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
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Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
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Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.
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Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
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Humor can be one of our best survival tools.
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