Quotes 401 till 420 of 10185.
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Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
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Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
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Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.
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Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
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Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
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Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
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Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea.
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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
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Society puts so much emphasis on outer appearance, but being confident in yourself and not letting others' opinions affect you is pretty amazing.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable.
Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 467 -
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
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Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
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Spinoza Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
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Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.
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Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints - the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk -we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.
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That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
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