Quotes 2381 till 2400 of 2906.
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To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless.
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To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
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To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.
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To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.
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To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
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To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
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To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.
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To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.
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To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, What would we have to do to come to believe it? For the pragmatist the question is, What would we do if did believe it?
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes, we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
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To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.
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To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.
Source: Timbuktu (2010) 59 -
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
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To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.
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To my mind ClickThings, and John Underwood are world champion caliber, and I am delighted to have the opportunity to partner with them.
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To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
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