Quotes 1121 till 1140 of 1435.
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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
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The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.
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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
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The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability.
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The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgement to have safely traveled from star to star.
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994) -
The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.
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The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.
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The voyage of the "Beagle" has been by far the most important event in my life, and has determined my whole career.
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (1887) -
The war in Afghanistan is too important to be reduced to a political football. We are fighting there to protect our national security. We are confronting the Taliban-led insurgency to prevent terrorists returning to that country.
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The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars.
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The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else.
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The whole point is, we can forget. It’s important that we forget some things. Otherwise we’d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just don’t need.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare.
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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
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