Quotes 241 till 260 of 286.
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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
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There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
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There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
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There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.
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There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.
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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
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There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and antidote.
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They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
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They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
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This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.
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Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.
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Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.
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Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.
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Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life; the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
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To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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