Quotes 1601 till 1620 of 1861.
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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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Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
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Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
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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.
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 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 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.
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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