Quotes 1941 till 1960 of 2265.
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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
Source: Pascal selections -
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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Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.
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To a poet, it's quite ruinous to have a poem distorted, out of shape, or squeezed, shall we say, into this tiny screen. But I'm not sure big digital companies are sensitive to the needs of poets.
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To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
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To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.
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To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.
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To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.
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To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.
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To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
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To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did, I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.
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To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang.
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To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.
Source: The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996) -
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
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To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.
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