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10086 Less quotes by 5567 unique authors
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Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives. Those who ought to become…
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
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So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of…
— Boethius
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From the height of their disillusionment they look down upon those whom they despise as simple souls. For my part I have no sympathy with…
— Bertrand Russell
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You always obey him? (Medea)If I didn't want to live, I'd stop taking human souls and expire. It would be a lot less painful than…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.'…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.
— Lee Kuan Yew
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It is hard to communicate understanding because that is something you get by living with a problem for a long time. You study it, perhaps…
— Michael Atiyah
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The tree can teach you forbearance and tolerance. It offers shade to all, irrespective of age, sex or religion, nationality or status. It helps with…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Cosmology does, I think, affect the way that we perceive humanity's role in nature. One thing we've learnt from astronomy is that the future lying…
— Martin Rees
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When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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I do not know why it matters that I should tell the truth to myself at night, why it should matter that the truth should…
— Colm Toibin
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Know your load. That's rule numero uno in this business, which is why I make them count the penguins out in front of me one…
— Jacob M. Appel
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Technique is of less interest than character and story.
— William Friedkin
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The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid…
— B.F. Skinner
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Progress is achieved by exchanging our theories for new ones which go further than the old, until we find one based on a larger number…
— Claude Bernard
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Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.
— Sharon Begley
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Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.
— Dwight Morrow
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We are all better than we know. If only we can be brought to realise this, we may never be prepared to settle for anything…
— Kurt Hahn
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You will receive what you ask for no more, no less
— Mark Allen
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That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two…
— Euclid
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The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The hour of happiness will be the more welcome, the less it was expected.
— Horace
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It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things of…
— Edmund Gibson
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Remember when you were a kid and the boys didn't like the girls? Only sissies liked girls? What I'm trying to tell you is that…
— Jules Feiffer
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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities,…
— Oscar Wilde
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