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13535 quotesMen tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
Pursuit
Laurence Sterne
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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
Pain
Laurence Sterne
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Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
Respectability
Laurence Sterne
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
Knowledge
Laurence Sterne
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The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
Anecdotes
Laurence Sterne
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There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
Doctors
Laurence Sterne
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We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
Complaints and Complaining
Laurence Sterne
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Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.
Courtesy
Abel Stevens
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The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know.
Knowledge
Ray Stevens
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How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
Literature
Wallace Stevens
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
Modern and Modernism
Wallace Stevens
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Wallace Stevens
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
Truth
Wallace Stevens
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
Imagination
Wallace Stevens
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Wallace Stevens
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The poet is the priest of the invisible.
Poetry and Poets
Wallace Stevens
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
Thoughts and Thinking
Wallace Stevens
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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
Change
Adlai E. Stevenson
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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
Communism and Socialism
Adlai E. Stevenson
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Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
Vision
Adlai E. Stevenson
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Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag.
Golf
Adlai E. Stevenson
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I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches.
Speakers and Speaking
Adlai E. Stevenson
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I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.
Speakers and Speaking
Adlai E. Stevenson
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In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
President
Adlai E. Stevenson
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It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Principles
Adlai E. Stevenson
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun