Obtains Quotes
46 quotes by 43 authors
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Go to the Madonna. Love her! Always say the Rosary. Say it well. Say it as often as you can! Be souls of prayer. Never…
— Pio of Pietrelcina
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There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only when the people…
— Nawal El Saadawi
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If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.
— Peter Wessel Zapffe
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The work of the inventor consists of conceptualizing, combining, and ordering what is possible according to the laws of nature. This inner working out which…
— Friedrich Dessauer
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When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour…
— Samuel Johnson
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Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for, whatever…
— John Calvin
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Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.
— Thomas Paine
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
— Petrarch
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All the worth which the human being possesses, all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State. . . For Truth is the unity of…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.
— Homer
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That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to…
— Eric Hoffer
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As with cows, mares, female camels, slave girls, buffalo cows, she goats, and ewes, it is not the begetter ,or his owner who obtains the…
— Guru Nanak
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Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.
— Baltasar Gracian
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The simple heart that freely asks in love, obtains.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
— Henri Matisse
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There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The…
— Maria Montessori
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Both Faith and Terror are instruments for the elimination of individual self-respect. Terror crushes the autonomy of self-respect, where Faith obtains its more or less…
— Eric Hoffer
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Whether that coherence obtains universally is a question that need not be answered here since only those parts where the coherence has actually been found…
— Wilhelm Ostwald
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