Quotes 25161 till 25180 of 25206.
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
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The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
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The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.
Source: Storage and Stability Part III, Ch. XIII, The Reservoir Plan and Credit -
The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.
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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
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The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.
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There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and praiseworthy.
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There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.
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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
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There are so many songs out there in the world that - if I know we have to come up with a new cover, then I'll just sit in my room and sing song after song and figure out which one I can kind of sing the best.
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There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds - not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but - a hatred of all injury.
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There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.
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There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
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There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.
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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.
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