Therefore Quotes
4218 Therefore quotes by 2275 unique authors
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Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is…
— Susanne Katherina Langer
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We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore…
— Abraham Lincoln
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It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which gives us the key to…
— Albert Einstein
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I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty…
— Samuel Johnson
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A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels,…
— Samuel Johnson
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The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.
— Samuel Johnson
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Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess…
— Samuel Johnson
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Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never excited a laugh…
— Lord Chesterfield
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But I believe this: by and large, the United States ought to be able to choose for its President anybody that it wants, regardless of…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be it brother, or…
— Epictetus
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The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore…
— William Jennings Bryan
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When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or…
— Simone Weil
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What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there is…
— John Stuart Mill
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A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.
— Epicurus
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The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.
— William O. Douglas
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Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want…
— Hannah Arendt
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There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.
— Hafez
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In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and…
— William Howard Taft
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The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his essence.…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form…
— Kate Clinton
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The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
— Hannah Arendt
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Businesses who are members of Businesses for Social Responsibility or the Social Venture Network are internalizing costs on a voluntary basis and therefore raising their…
— Paul Hawken
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Women like other women fine. The more feminine she is, the more comfortable a woman feels with her own sex. It is only the occasional…
— Phyllis McGinley
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The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now…
— Florence King
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It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.
— Abba Eban
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