Quotes 541 till 560 of 674.
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There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
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They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
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They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.
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They said, ''You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, ''Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.''
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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.
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This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.
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This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.
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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.
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Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
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Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.
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Those who seek to impress upon us that they are gentlemen will usually be found mistaken.
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Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?
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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.
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To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
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To bring aid to everyone in need far surpasses the powers and advantage of a private person.... So the case of the poor falls upon society as a whole.
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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks with a rasor.
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