Quotes 7481 till 7500 of 10005.
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The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
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The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being… can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.
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The most profilic period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.
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The most sobering thing is to have a number one record across the whole entire world in all languages.
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The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.
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The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing - and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.
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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
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The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
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The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
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The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.
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The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
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The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.
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The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.
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The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.
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The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
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The name of an iron man goes round the world.
It takes a long time to forget an iron man.Source: Washington Monument by Night in Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922) -
The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
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