Quotes 2201 till 2220 of 10185.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question ''Have we anything to eat?'' will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.
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Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.
An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) XIX, 15, 1 -
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
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Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, ''ye cannot enter the kingdom of God.'' One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
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Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
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Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
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Experience is a great teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
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Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.
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