Quotes 6461 till 6479 of 6479.
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To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
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To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
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We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq, Ma'ariv quoted the former prime minister as saying. He reportedly added that these events swung American public opinion in our favor.
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We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.
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What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
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What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
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What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.
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When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife continues long, usually both become guilty.
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When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
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When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.
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When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
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Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
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Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.
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Year. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
You wrestle one night, get up the next morning and fly out to the next city. You try to work out, you try to get some food into you and, lo and behold, you have to go work again. You are living out of a suitcase.
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