Quotes 281 till 300 of 10005.
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Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
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Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.
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But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.
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By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
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Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
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Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
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Climate change, demographics, water, food, energy, global health, women's empowerment - these issues are all intertwined. We cannot look at one strand in isolation. Instead, we must examine how these strands are woven together.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her home when in appearance she seems firmly settled.
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Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
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Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
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Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
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Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
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Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.
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