Quotes 21 till 40 of 89.
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Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.
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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
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Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
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Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.
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Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?
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Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.
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Good men seek it by the natural means of the virtues; evil men, however, try to achieve the same goal by a variety of concupiscences, and that is surely an unnatural way of seeking the good. Don't you agree?
De Consolatione Philosophia Book 4, Prose 2, 524. Translated from Latin by Ric -
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
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He who refuses to embrace an unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers
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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
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If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
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If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.
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If Thai citizens still hold this harmony in their hearts, there is hope that in whatever the situation, Thailand will surely get through it safely and with stability.
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If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.
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If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell.
Foreword, The Marxists (1962) -
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
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Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.
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