Quotes 921 till 940 of 1426.
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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
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The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.
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The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the only legitimate object of good government.
Letter to Republicans, 31-03-1809 -
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.
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The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
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The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
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The chief incalculable in war is the human will.
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The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
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The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.
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The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo.
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The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
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The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
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The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
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