Quotes 7461 till 7480 of 10591.
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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more service for the betterment of life.
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
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The history of liberty is the history of the limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. When we resist the concentration of power we are resisting the powers of death. Concentration of power precedes the destruction of human liberties.
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The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
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The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
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The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.
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The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
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The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
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The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.
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The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.
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The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the ''easy life of the gods'' would be a lifeless life.
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The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.
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The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
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The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.
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The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud.
Kingdom Come (2006)
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