Quotes 301 till 320 of 407.
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The progress of the world is the history of men who would not permit defeat to speak the final word.
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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
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The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
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The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beingsÂ… As the shadow follows the body, As we think, so we become.
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The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
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The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, divine.
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The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.
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The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
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The word ''belief'' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it -I don't need to believe it.
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The word ''Christianity'' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
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The word ''civilization'' to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.
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The word ''conservative'' is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.
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The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
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The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
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The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry.
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The word courage comes from the French word 'coeur', which means heart. True power proceeds not from force, but from love.
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