"To most people, nothing is more troublesome than……" — James Bryce
"To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking."
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25 Quotes by James Bryce
James Bryce has 25 quotes on this site.
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Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
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Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and…
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The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
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Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their…
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I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found…
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A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.
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There is in the American Government...a want of unity.... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have…
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Perhaps the most typically American place in America.
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Life is too short for reading inferior books.
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Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he…
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The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many…
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California, more than any other part of the Union, is a country by itself, and San Francisco a capital.
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We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure…
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Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can…
— Julian Assange
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to…
— Chinua Achebe
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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in…
— Charles Babbage
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose…
— Peter Ackroyd
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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.…
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
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Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work…
— James A. Baldwin
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
— James A. Baldwin
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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful…
— Johnny Ball
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The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
— Roger Bannister
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