Quotes 7641 till 7660 of 10005.
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The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.
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The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.
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The post-war publish or perish tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
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The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
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The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
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The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.
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The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.
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The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
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The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
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The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.
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The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.
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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.
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The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.
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