Quotes 8041 till 8060 of 10692.
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The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars.
Revolutionary Suicide (2009) -
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
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The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
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The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.
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The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes became sheer terror and torture to me. I was so intimidated by my incomprehension that I did not dare to ask any questions.
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The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
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The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.
Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure (1922) -
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
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The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it - the speed of his acceptance.
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
Bella!: Ms. Abzug goes to Washington -
The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.
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The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To ''make a beeline'' for something. That's worthy of being immortal and is immortal in English idiom. ''I guess I'll split'' is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded.
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The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, 'What a lovely sermon!' but 'I will do something.
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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
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The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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