Quotes 121 till 140 of 1127.
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
On War (1832) -
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Business Etiquette for the Nineties (1992) p. 8 -
Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back;
And is a swelling, and the last affection
A high mind can put off; being both a rebel
Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth
All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion,
and offereth violence to nature's self.Catiline His Conspiracy -
America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
State of the Union, 20-01-2004 -
America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.
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Among all my patients in the second half of life... every one of them fell ill because he had lost what the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
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An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
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An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.
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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
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An offer to fight Muhammad Ali came after Stevenson won his second Olympic gold in Montreal in 1976. Stevenson was at his peak. The world had never seen a heavyweight with the tools Stevenson brought into the ring.
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And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
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And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
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And then, Sir, there is this consideration, that if the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
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And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
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Any relationship should have love, and if there is no love, it is better to call off a relationship. People say that love happens only once, but I don't believe in it because for me, if one relationship doesn't work, you should move on and seek love in another relationship. Who knows; you might find love in the second relationship.
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Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891) -
Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.
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