Quotes 681 till 700 of 2906.
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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.Source: 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!
Source: 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.
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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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Human trafficking robs victims of their basic human rights, and it occurs right under our noses. Many efforts have been focused in other regions of the world, but this is a major problem here at home.
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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
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Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
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