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  • If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Confucius Quotes , Men Quotes , Long Quotes
  • "The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ... Astronomy repeats itself; botany repeats itself; trigonometry repeats itself; mechanics repeats itself; compound long division repeats itself. Every sum if worked out in the same way at any time will bring out the same answer. ... A great many moderns say that history is a science; if so it occupies a solitary and splendid elevation among the sciences; it is the only science the conclusions of which are always wrong.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Science Quotes , Long Quotes
  • There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Long Quotes , Waiting Quotes
  • Living is not this tawdry, mediocre, disciplined thing which we call our existence. Living is something entirely different; it is abundantly rich, timelessly changing, and as long as we don't understand that eternal movement, our lives are bound to have very little meaning.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Long Quotes
  • In the long term, we've got to defeat an ideology of hate with an ideology of hope. There' a reason why people like [Al-Qaida leader Osama] bin Laden are able to recruit suiciders, because if you don't have hope, you're attracted to an ideology which says, it's OK to kill people and kill yourself.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Hate Quotes , Long Quotes