Quotes 3241 till 3260 of 4180.
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The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.
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The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no less natural and necessary than liberty but more dangerous.
Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p -
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
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The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.
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The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
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The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.
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The women's movement will present a growing threat to patriarchal religion less by attacking it than by simply leaving it behind.
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The wonder we often express at our neighbours keeping dull company, would lessen if we reflected that most people seek companions less to be talked to, than to talk.
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The words ''Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,'' which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies. This appeal is what attracts us, and ultimately what makes us despair when we begin to understand how seldom movies are more than this.
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The world has always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.
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The world has more winnable people than ever before… but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed.
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The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
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The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
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The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider.
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The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
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The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert (1848) p.184 -
The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.
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The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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