Upon Another Quotes
58 quotes by 52 authors
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Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow…
— Marcus Aurelius
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The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.
— Thomas Francis Meagher
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It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he…
— Henry David Thoreau
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What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?
— Audre Lorde
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The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental.
— Wassily Kandinsky
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In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
— Michel de Montaigne
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When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have undergone some labour…
— Samuel Johnson
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With the nervous system intact the reactions of the various parts of that system, the 'simple reflexes', are ever combined into great unitary harmonies, actions…
— Charles Scott Sherrington
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The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.
— Hosea Ballou
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The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has and the less he is at the mercy of fate,…
— Bertrand Russell
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I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon…
— Lord Byron
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Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep;…
— Hans Christian Andersen
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It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a…
— Mark Twain
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If he hadn't been my father I would have loved the spectacle he created-one performance following quickly upon another-like a versatile old vaudevil-lian with his…
— Maureen Howard
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War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.
— Helen and Scott Nearing
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In the preface to his great History of Europe, H. A. L. Fisher wrote: "Men wiser than and more learned than I have discerned in…
— D. V. Ager
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Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.
— Aeschylus
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When a body acts upon another one, it is always immediately or through some intermediate body; this intermediate body is in general what one calls…
— Lazare Carnot
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Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must…
— Michel de Montaigne
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We must regard all matter as an intrusted secret which we believe the person concerned would wish to be considered as such. Nay, further still,…
— Leigh Hunt
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