Quotes 41 till 60 of 101.
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If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.
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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
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If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
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If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.
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It is the indispensable duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who possess the obligations of Christianity, to extend their power and influence to the relief of every part of the human race...
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Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
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Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.
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Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
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Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
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Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.
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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
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That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
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That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
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The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
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The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
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The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.
De slinger van Foucault (2007)
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