Quotes 421 till 440 of 11531.
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It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
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It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
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It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
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It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
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It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.
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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
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It takes two to speak the truth, one to speak, and another to hear.
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It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.
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It's also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we're better and have more to give and are more fun now.
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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
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Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
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Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
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Lack of knowledge concerning all the factors and the failure to include them in our integral imposes false conclusions.
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
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Let me just try to give you sort of the intuitive one here on the stimulus funds. If you have a two-person economy - let's imagine we have two farms, and that's the whole world, just two farms. If one of those farmers gets unemployment benefits, who do you think pays for him? Am I going way over your heads today?
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li is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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