Quotes 8621 till 8640 of 10005.
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To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.
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To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.
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To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
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To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I.".
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To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
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To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.
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To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs - but a tribute nevertheless.
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To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.
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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
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To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection.
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To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.
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To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
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To the illumined man or woman, a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same.
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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word ''Intellectual'' suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.
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To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a ''home'' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.
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