Quotes 3021 till 3040 of 3090.
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Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
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Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
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Coward: One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
The Devil's Dictionary -
Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.
Referring to Arturo Ui (representing Adolf Hitler), in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1941) -
Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man - and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.''
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
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Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
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For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.
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Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.
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God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.
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God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.
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God's plan made a hopeful beginning. But man spoiled his chances by sinning. We trust that the story will end in God's glory. But, at present, the other side's winning.
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Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .
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He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
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He that is proud eats up himself. Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.
Troilus and Cressida 2, 3 -
He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
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His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.
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