Quotes 3441 till 3460 of 3477.
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[To a railway stationmaster:] We must leave exactly on time.... From now on everything must function to perfection.
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A ''modern'' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Source: Insecurity of Freedom -
A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.
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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
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All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.
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But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
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But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
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But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind.
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Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
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Dawn: The time when men of reason go to bed.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.
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Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
Original:Tout porte à croire qu'il existe un certain point de l'esprit d'où la vie et le mort, le réel et l'imaginaire, le passé et le futur, le communicable et l'incommunicable, le haut et le bas cessent d'être perçus contradictoirement.
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Everything you can imagine is real.
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Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.
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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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I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
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I love the way people talk crap. I hear it all the time. 'Overrated.' 'You suck.' I'll just do something to shut them up, like, 'I'll show you.'
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