Quotes 2461 till 2480 of 3090.
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The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
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The real Representative McDermott said Jason McDermott is no relation. The Congressman does have a son, but his name is James and he does not live in the Midwest.
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The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.
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The real truth is that while He came to preach the gospel, His chief object in coming was that there might be a gospel to preach.
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The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
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The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997) p. 333 -
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
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The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly; in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
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The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.
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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
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The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.
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The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.
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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.
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The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the mood's of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
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The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
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