Quotes 961 till 980 of 1435.
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The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life.
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The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
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The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
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The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
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The first step to self-knowledge is self-distrust. Nor can we attain to any kind of knowledge, except by a like process.
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The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
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The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.
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The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
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The future begins today! What is important is what we do today and tomorrow for Tunisia and all its children. We must work hand in hand.
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The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.
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The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.
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The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavonic tribes.
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The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
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The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
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The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
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