Quotes 21 till 40 of 2216.
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More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
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No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.
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Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.
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Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
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Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Contact (1985) Ch. 14 -
A lady came up to me on the street and pointed to my suede jacket. "You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?" she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, "I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too."
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A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.
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A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.
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A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
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After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
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All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
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And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.
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Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
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Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
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