Quotes 3921 till 3940 of 4539.
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To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.
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To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
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To the illumined man or woman, a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same.
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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word ''Intellectual'' suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.
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To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a ''home'' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.
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To the psychotherapist an old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it.
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To the truly humble man the ordinary ways and customs and habits of men are not a matter of conflict.
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To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day: thou canst not then be false to any man.
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To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
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To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
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To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
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Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole.
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Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
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Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
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Tom Selleck brings in the babes of all ages, I have to tell you. You can be 60, 80, or 16 and still love that man.
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Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
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Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
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