Quotes 161 till 180 of 207.
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The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or smal - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
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The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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There are not words enough in all Shakespeare to express the merest fraction of a man's experience in an hour.
The Pocket R.L.S. -
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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There is a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied by material things alone - by better cars on longer credit terms.
Speech DNC 17-08-1956 -
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
'Virginibus Puerisque ' An Apology for Idlers' (1881) -
There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.
Wit and Wisdom (1965) -
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
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To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
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To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.
The Complete Works (2015) -
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
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To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.
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To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.
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