Quotes 2281 till 2300 of 2954.
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There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
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There is a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied by material things alone - by better cars on longer credit terms.
Speech DNC 17-08-1956 -
There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.
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There is always a 'but' in this imperfect world.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) Ch. XXII -
There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
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There is much proud humility and humble pride in the world.
Sparks from the philosopher's stone (1882) -
There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.
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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.
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There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.
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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
'Virginibus Puerisque ' An Apology for Idlers' (1881) -
There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.
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There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.
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There is no purifier like knowledge in this world:
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There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
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There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
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There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
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There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
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