Quotes 5861 till 5880 of 5916.
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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
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One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.
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One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
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One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
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Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.
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Opiate. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.
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Our civilization is characterized by the word ''progress.'' Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.
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Physician - One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.
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Road: A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.
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Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.
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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
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Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
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Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
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Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.
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The approval of the public is to be avoided like the plague. It is absolutely essential to keep the public from entering if one wishes to avoid confusion. I must add that the public must be kept panting in expectation at the gate by a system of challenges and provocations.
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The are and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.
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The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have this capacity do not possess it. Warmth of heart, impulsiveness, pity are not enough.
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