Quotes 621 till 640 of 10681.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
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A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
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A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.
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A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.
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A conservative is a man who does not think that anything should be done for the first time.
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A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
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A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.
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A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.
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A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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A critic should be a pair of snuffers. He is oftener an extinguisher, and not seldom a thief.
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