Quotes 1181 till 1200 of 1869.
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The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
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The most useless are those who never change through the years.
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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
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The myths have always condemned those who ''looked back.'' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
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The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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The newest books are those that never grow old.
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The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
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The one who count are those persons who-though they may be of little renown-respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
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The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.
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The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
In a Free State (2012) 162 -
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
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