Quotes 261 till 280 of 488.
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Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
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One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
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One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
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Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.
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Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
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Our government works should be treated fairly and appropriately; they should have a decent retirement, but not a gold-plated system where they can retire multimillionaires in their 50s.
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Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
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Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
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Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.
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Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments, Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know thyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.
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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
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People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
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People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power.
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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
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