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Wilhelm von Humboldt has 43 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events…
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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet…
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Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the…
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It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
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How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.
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War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret…
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If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent,…
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Language makes infinite use of finite media.
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Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.
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Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who…
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If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being,…
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Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to…
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If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent,…
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Republicans have become the party of red, white and blue rose colored glasses. By drowning out criticism with USA! USA!, they prevent…
— Bill Maher
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There is a natural greenhouse effect that contributes to warming. Greenhouse gases trap heat and thus warm the Earth because they prevent…
— George W. Bush
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The truth about Hamas and Islamic Jihad is that they don't prevent Israel from existing or even flourishing, they prevent Palestine from…
— Michael Medved
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However, the eleventh-hour nature of these changes left us frustrated and angry — because they prevent us from telling the best stories…
— Unknown Author
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Our prejudices are like physical infirmities — we cannot do what they prevent us from doing.
— John Lancaster Spalding
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God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us…
— Elizabeth I
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
— Barbra Streisand
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The health benefits of paid sick days policies are obvious. They prevent the spread of disease. But the impact is wider. If…
— Madeleine M. Kunin
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Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe…
— Daniel Keys Moran
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