Saint Augustine Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Long Quotes

So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can.

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Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors.

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Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen.

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The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long.

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As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.

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An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn't it be better to wait until things clear up a bit? You know the prose: "Maintain buying reserves until current uncertainties are resolved," etc. Before reaching for that crutch, face up to two unpleasant facts: The future is never clear and you pay a very high price for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.

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You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.

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As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Drama Quotes , Long Quotes

The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

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Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights.

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Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.

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That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

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Blind and naked ignorance delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, on all things all day long

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He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

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The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Long Quotes , Democracy Quotes

Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.

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As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

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There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Long Quotes , Decision Quotes

What a funny watch!’ she remarked. ‘It tells the day of the month, and doesn’t tell what o’clock it is!’ ‘Why should it?’ muttered the Hatter. ‘Does YOUR watch tell you what year it is?’ ‘Of course not,’ Alice replied very readily: ‘but that’s because it stays the same year for such a long time together.’ ‘Which is just the case with MINE,’ said the Hatter.

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