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It is part of the moral tragedy with which we are dealing that words like 'democracy,' 'freedom,' 'rights,' 'justice,' which have so often inspired heroism… — Norman Angell
The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and… — George Orwell
I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents… — Carl Jung
... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is tragedy, it is… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the… — Arthur Conan Doyle
There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along… — Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft
One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good… — Charles Dudley Warner
In a way Winter is the real Spring - the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature. — Edna O'Brien
The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother… — Clark Gable
The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was… — Robyn Davidson
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language… — Raymond Chandler
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. — Flora Lewis
Read good, big important things. — Peggy Noonan
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. — Elon Musk
Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human… — Susan Sontag
It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by… — Thomas Carlyle
Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who… — Saint Augustine
Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works… — D. H. Lawrence
If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real… — James A. Baldwin
The best thing in life aren't things. — John Ruskin
It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate… — D. H. Lawrence
I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the sons… — Samuel Johnson
"We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?..." — Mikhail Bulgakov

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