Quotes 541 till 560 of 631.
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Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.
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Thou rather shalt enforce it with thy smile
Than hew to't with thy sword.Timon of Athens IV -
Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.
Popolo dItalia (1 February 1921), quoted in The Menace of Fascism (1933) by John Strachey, p. 65 -
Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.
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Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?
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To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.
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To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.
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To be content with life - or to live merrily, rather -all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.
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To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
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To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.
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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 what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
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To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.
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To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.
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Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
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Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.
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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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