Quotes 1861 till 1880 of 2981.
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Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized ac
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Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
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Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.
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Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
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Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
Source: The Screwtape Letters (1942) -
Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.
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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.''
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Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams. Some of the best relationships I ever had were with Boston athletes that I never even met.
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Our generation grew up with technology. It evolved as we grew up. This new generation has had it since they were babies. That's crazy. It fundamentally changes they way they understand and think about technology. They've never known life without it, whereas we knew life without the Internet.
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Our greatest glory consists not in never failing but in rising every time we fall.
Source: The Citizen of the World (1762) - door Lien Chi Altangi (Oliver Goldsmith) -
Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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Our necessities never equal our wants.
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Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.
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Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.
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