Quotes 3401 till 3420 of 4570.
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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
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The piano is always true to me. In times of despair, happiness, and joy, its mood is always my own.
Source: Grand Piano (Narada Anniversay Collection) Album liner -
The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.
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The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
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The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
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The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.
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The premise of neo-conservatives is that markets left to their own devices will produce the best possible result, and that political interference is not required. This defies the human reality that people are not commodities, and simply refuse to behave as if they were.
Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Two, The First Question: Self Interest and Pro -
The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.
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The President and the Democrats on Congress have exploited the financial crisis to advance their socialist big government tax, spend and borrow agenda.
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The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.
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The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.
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