Such Quotes
16024 quotes by 7769 authors
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It is clear that there must be difficulties for us in a revelation such as the Bible. If someone were to hand me a book…
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and…
— Lewis Mumford
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Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and…
— M. Scott Peck
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You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.
— H. L. Mencken
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To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position of such power…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after…
— Bobby Jones
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Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and the short stories…
— Unknown Author
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The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in…
— John Lancaster Spalding
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Let me come in when you are weeping, friend, and let me take your hand. I, who have known a sorrow such as yours, can…
— Grace Noll Crowell
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I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that…
— Maria Edgeworth
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There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
— Alexander Woollcott
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You're going to die soon enough anyway; even if it's a hundred years from now, that's still the blink of a cosmic eye. In the…
— Jesse Bering
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If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.
— Hans Reichenbach
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The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more…
— Alan Watts
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It is so inspiring to see a new group coming together not to focus on a particular war or weapons system, but on all war-everywhere.…
— Medea Benjamin
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It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite…
— Winston Churchill
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It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those instruments of war,…
— Herman Boerhaave
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Resort to science has rendered modern war so destructive of life and property that it presents a new problem to mankind, such, that unless our…
— Unknown Author
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People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer, and so on;…
— Florence Nightingale
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