Quotes 561 till 580 of 1083.
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Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
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Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.
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Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight
you got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylightStealing Fire (1984) Lovers in a Dangerous Time, Track 1 -
Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.
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Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.
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Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
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Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk.
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Of course not, she agreed, You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.
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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
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Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.
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One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials.
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One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.
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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
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One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
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