Quotes 121 till 140 of 631.
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Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
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Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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Emily Dickinson seems rather tame because she pretty much uses the same meter every time. It's called 'common meter.' It's a line of four beats that's followed by a line of three beats.
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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
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Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,
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Fantasy has had some problems with being too repetitive, in my opinion. I try to read what other people are doing - and say, 'How can I add to this rather than just recycle it? How can I stand on Tolkien's shoulders rather than stand tied to his kneecaps?'
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the ''four P's'' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.
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Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
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Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.
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For a while, people couldn't understand why I'd find them so fascinating, but I'd rather go to a trial than to a Broadway play. Now that we have Court TV, they see what I mean.
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For me nature is not a landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces - an event rather than an appearance.
Quoted in Karl Ruhrberg et al., Art of the 20th Century (2000) -
For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure - tangible material prosperity in this world - is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
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