Quotes 361 till 380 of 10005.
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I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.
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I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
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I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how
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I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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I can see only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.
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I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.
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I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.
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I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.
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I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ''What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.''
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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
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I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.
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I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.
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I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
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I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.
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