Quotes 7901 till 7920 of 10005.
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
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The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgement to have safely traveled from star to star.
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994) -
The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis. And that's been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window.
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The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets (1845) -
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
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The virtue of a medicine probably lies to a considerable extent in the will to get well with which one purchases it.
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The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.
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The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.
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The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
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The walking of Man is falling forwards.
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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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The way out of the maze of whiteness and blackness that led inevitably, repeatedly, to violent conflict was through the simple recognition of and respect for blacks and whites as not two races but one: the human race.
Source: The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003) -
The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
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The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert p. 532 -
The West believes that man and the universe are both complex and that the apparently discordant parts of each can be put into a reasonably workable arrangement with a little good will, patience, and experimentation.
Source: Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966) -
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
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The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which brings out the lowest, most base part of human beings.
Source: Operation Shylock: A Confession (1993) -
The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man.
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