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In democracies, nothing is more great or more brilliant than commerce: it attracts the attention of the public, and fills the imagination of the multitude;… — Alexis de Tocqueville
People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor. — Norman Douglas
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every… — John Ruskin
In Savasana or in meditation, the light of the eyes is drawn towards the lotus of the heart, so that the seat of the intelligence… — B.K.S. Iyengar
The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home. — David Whyte
Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives. — Kajol
This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? — Thomas Browne
Whither should we aim if not towards God? — Andre Gide
And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing towards decay. — George MacDonald
To please people is a great step towards persuading them. — Lord Chesterfield
Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make… — Emma Goldman
I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a… — Alfred Hitchcock
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
I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place… — Alberto Manguel
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation. — Walter Pater
The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the… — Anton Chekhov
What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is subject to the… — Ludwig van Beethoven
We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love. — Joseph Joubert
I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not… — Paul Hawken
Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not move towards clean,… — Paul Hawken
If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude towards… — Sidney Lanier
When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults. — Alison Bechdel
I was sat at the bottom of the garden a week ago, smoking a reflective cheroot, thinking about this and that - mostly that, and… — Les Dawson
The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards… — Soren Kierkegaard

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