Quotes 1601 till 1620 of 10005.
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As man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.
Source: On War (1832) -
As meditation flowers, you find that on one hand truth has revealed to you all its mysteries and on the other blissfulness is showering all its treasures on you.
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As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.
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As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, ''What is truth?''
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As one of my predecessors said, our objective is not to take people to heaven, but to prevent humanity from going to hell.
Source: Kofi Annan on 40 Years Trying to End War, Promote Peace at the United Nations (2012) -
As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
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As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within.
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As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
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As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
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As the era of the sword was ending, that of firearms began, in time to allow no lapse in man's belligerent capacity.
Source: A Distant Mirror -
As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.
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As the Spanish proverb says, ''He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.'' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.
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As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.
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As you get larger, it is harder to have focused discussions. Because one of the things I've learned about Congress over the past four years that I've been in is there's no shortage of opinions about how things should be done on any particular subject.
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As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
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As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.
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