Therefore Quotes
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Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it.…
— Swami Vivekananda
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This fight has nothing to do with soldierly gallantry or principles of the Geneva Convention. If the fight against the partisans is not waged with…
— Wilhelm Keitel
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For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the public laws, but…
— Lactantius
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Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help…
— Cyril Connolly
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Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.
— Margaret Drabble
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They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends? Therefore we are free to kill them?…
— J M Coetzee
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I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber…
— Oscar Wilde
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The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt, seeing more safety…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Nothing will change until we demolish the "we-they" mentality. We are human, and therefore all human concerns are ours. And those concerns are personal.
— Sam Hamill
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You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll be writers only…
— Sydney Lea
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With all my devotion to the Union, and the feeling of loyalty and duty of an American citizen, I have not been able to make…
— Robert E. Lee
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The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself.
— Joan of Arc
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I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.
— Mencius
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Mental bearing (calmness), not skill, is the sign of a matured samurai. A Samurai therefore should neither be pompous nor arrogant.
— Tsukahara Bokuden
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The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.
— William Shakespeare
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We must look towards societies that set a high value on nonaggression and noncompetitive ness, and therefore handle conflicts by nonviolent means. We can see…
— Elise M. Boulding
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God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is…
— David Foster Wallace
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Avoid theatrical flourishes - the phrases that sound so damned good that they stand up and beg to be recognized as "good writing," and therefore…
— Donald Spoto
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All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like…
— Truman Capote
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