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There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief. — Jane Smiley
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live. — Seneca the Younger
It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental… — Charles Darwin
As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring… — Rumer Godden
Gossip harms relationships and that's why it's bad. While we all do it at times, there's a point where it crosses the line and becomes… — Rachel Simmons
I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness. — William Hazlitt
...many have the idea that organizing people is very difficult, but it isn't. It becomes difficult only at the point where you begin to see… — Cesar Chavez
I think one of the great, great problems...is confusing people to the point where they become immobile. In fact, the more things people can find… — Cesar Chavez
The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both. — Thorstein Veblen
Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white… — William Faulkner
Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination. — Andre Gide
The first point of courtesy must always be truth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
God is what man finds that is divine in himself. It is the best way man can behave in the ordinary occasions of life, and… — Max Lerner
[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the especial duty of… — Joseph Story
So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life. — Saint John Chrysostom
When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this state,… — Colin Powell
When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and devotion can be… — Elihu Root

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