Quotes 1581 till 1600 of 2216.
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The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
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The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.
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The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
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The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
― Angelina Grimké
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.
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The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any egoconsciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.
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The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it.
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The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.
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The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations.
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The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
Source: Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. VIII, Ultimate Uses of the Stored Uni -
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
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The fact is that the diversity in this political class serves the same interest as diversity in any arena, which is it stirs the competitive pot.
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The fact is that you're never gonna believe any of the reviews, because the movie is to you what it is to you. No one's ever gonna sway you from what you feel about it.
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
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The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.
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The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.
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The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
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