Quotes 5481 till 5500 of 6002.
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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 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 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 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 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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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.
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What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another.
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What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one frame of mind and for the moment realizes itself.
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