Quotes 2701 till 2720 of 3090.
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
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To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.
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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
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To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.
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To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
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To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.
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To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold.
Bernard M. Baruch
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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
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To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.
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To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs - but a tribute nevertheless.
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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 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 query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''
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To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good in themselves, and capable of a good use. But to overvalue riches, to give them a place in the heart which God did not design them to fill, this is covetous
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Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
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