Quotes 7921 till 7940 of 10591.
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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
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The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed upon.
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
A Treatise on Parents and Children (1910) -
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
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The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
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The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do.
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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
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The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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The Senate needs to protect the interests of the American people and the world community, not provide political cover to President Bush. It's not enough to call Saddam Hussein evil incarnate.
on U.S. Senate hearings into President Bushs planned invasion of Iraq -
The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.
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The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
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The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: a man should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in his path.
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The separation between the two cultures has been getting deeper under our eyes; there is now precious little communication between them.... The traditional culture... is, of course, mainly literary... the scientific culture is expansive, not restrictive.
New Statesman, 6 October 1956 -
The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
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The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.
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The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical.
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The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
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