Miscellaneous Quotes
222 quotes by 152 authors
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The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.
— Pierre Trudeau
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I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.
— Bernard Baruch
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The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such…
— H.G. Wells
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The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
— Eric Hoffer
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When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture,…
— Eric Hoffer
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For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope.
— Joseph Conrad
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Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.
— Albert Camus
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Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.
— Albert Camus
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We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life…
— Norman Cousins
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I shall not let a sorrow die Until I find the heart of it, Nor let a wordless joy go by Until it talks to…
— Sara Teasdale
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A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
— William Allen White
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I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled…
— Fred Hoyle
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A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.
— Theodor Haecker
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The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith.
— Chester Bowles
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Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty.
— Alan Barth
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The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
— Frederick William Faber
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But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.
— D. H. Lawrence
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