Quotes 181 till 200 of 286.
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Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
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So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Source: Bertrand Russells Best -
Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: ''Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.''
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Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.
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Sorrow is the great idealizer.
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Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
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The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.
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The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
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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 eye is the notebook of the poet.
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
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The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
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The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
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