Quotes 1961 till 1980 of 2607.
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The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
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The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
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The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
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The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit; their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.
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The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.
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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
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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 planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.
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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
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The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
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The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.
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The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.
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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.
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The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
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The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.
Vernon God Little
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