Quotes 9081 till 9100 of 10005.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it.
― Angelina Grimke
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
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What one fool can understand, another can.
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What one has to do usually can be done.
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What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
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What one man can invent, another can discover.
Source: Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Dancing Men (1903) -
What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
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What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.
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What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
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What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
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What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
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What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
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What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.
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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
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