Quotes 1141 till 1160 of 3019.
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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it, just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.
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It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle.
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It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural.
Source: The Clash of Civilizations? (1993) -
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
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It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.
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It is no accident that this country has been blessed with its abundance and its history as the freest and most productive in the world.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
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It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
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It is not more people that are needed in the world but better people, physically, morally and mentally. This question of raising the quality of our American population must also be taken into account in the question of immigration.
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It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
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It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.
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It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
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It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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It is only an uncivilized world that would worship civilization.
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 22 -
It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.
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