Quotes 1561 till 1580 of 2960.
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Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.
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Periodically, at the end of a conversation, someone will ask me, 'Is there something I can do for you?' I used to answer with 'Do something that is helpful to something or someone in my world.'
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Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.
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Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
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Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
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Personally, I've never been attracted to danger. It's not my sort of thing. I am more attracted to pubs and cafes. The known, safe and comfortable world.
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Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.
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PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.
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Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
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Physicists must feel they are in the most exciting field in the world. Their minds must be afire.
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Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
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Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.
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Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.
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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
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Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.
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Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
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