Quotes 301 till 320 of 11531.
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Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
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Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
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Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
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Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
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Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.
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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
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Creativity is all around us, and some of the funniest, most beautiful, and touching moments happen when you least expect it.
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Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
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Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.
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Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.
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Decision is a sharp knife that cuts or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was clean and straight; indecision, a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it.
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Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress in individuals and in nations.
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
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Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
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Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.
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Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.
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