Quotes 681 till 700 of 2916.
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His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
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His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!
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History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
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Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders.Chicago (1916) -
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
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Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world.
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How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.
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How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
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How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?
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How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
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How wonderful it is that a thing so evident as the vanity of the world is so little known, that it is a strange and surprising thing to say that it is foolish to seek greatness!
Pensees (1669) -
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.
Who Is Man? (1965) -
Human beings the world over need freedom and security that they may be able to realize their full potential.
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Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
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