Quotes 3401 till 3420 of 5916.
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One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
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One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
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One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
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One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.
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One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.
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One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
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One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires.
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One of the stupidest theories of Western life.
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One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
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One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.
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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
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One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
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One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
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One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
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One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the 'inner contradictions' of such a system.
Source: In Defence Of Politics Ch. 5, A Defence Of Politics Against Technology, p -
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
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One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
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One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
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One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
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One of the things I did in my book, I start off with, is explaining how great our grace was: the things we were able to accomplish after the first one-hundred years from slavery.
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