Quotes 6861 till 6880 of 10185.
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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
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The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.
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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
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The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
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The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
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The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
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The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
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The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
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The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.
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The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.
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The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.
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The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief.
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The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is out-grossing my films.
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The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself: ''That is not what I meant by freedom - it is only social progress. ''
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The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.
Second Treatise of Government VI, sec. 57 -
The end of times has always been a fascination. But post 9/11, pretty much everybody will admit to having it on their minds more frequently than when they were a kid.
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The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
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