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155 quotesI'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Courage
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.
Happiness
Samuel Johnson
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Children need models rather than critics.
Children
Joseph Joubert
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I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
Writers and Writing
Ken Kesey
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Idleness
Soren Kierkegaard
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Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
Arts and Artists
Paul Klee
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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
Suffering
Jean De La Fontaine
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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,
Failure
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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We would rather speak badly of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
Egotism
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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He used statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts; for support rather than illumination.
Statistics
Andrew Lang
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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Children
Roger Lewin
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Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Wyndham Lewis
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I would rather start a family than finish one.
Family
Don Marquis
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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.
Friends and Friendship
W. Somerset Maugham
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The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.
Argument
Andre Maurois
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Choose rather to punish your appetites than be punished by them.
Food and Eating
Tyrius Maximus
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One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.
Attitude
Henry Miller
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Marriage
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.
Greed
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Disease
Mother Teresa
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Death rather than disgrace.
Honor
Motto
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One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.
Service
Motto
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Arts and Artists
Iris Murdoch
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It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.
Opinions
Yitzhak Navon
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Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
Fanatics and Fanaticism
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun