Greater Quotes - Page 18

• What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Kindness

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2009). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.94, The Floating Press

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• Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.

  Karl Rove

  People, Life Is, Circumstances

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• I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Common, Human Nature

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• Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Life, Wedding

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.79, Routledge

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• Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

  Bertrand Russell

  Marriage, Sex, Feminist

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.94, Routledge

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• The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

  Bertrand Russell

  Death, Time, Fate

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.85, Bertrand Russell

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• I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.

  William Safire

  Color, Way, Welcome

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• While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Littles, Little Things, Busy

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• I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Jesus, New York

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• Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Heart, Compassion, Needs

  "Opening the Heart with Lovingkindness" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2011.

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• The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Mistake, Struggle, Errors

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Science, Data

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• If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.

  Franz Schubert

  Mind, Cleaning, Reverence

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• There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

  Clara Schumann

  Joy, Listening, Composing

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• As slavery died for the greater good of America, and the movement for equality sputtered to life, the white woman was on the cover of every American magazine. She was the dazzling jewel on every movie screen, the glory of every commercial and television show.

  Jill Scott

  Jewels, White, America

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• Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

  Haile Selassie

  Judging, Kingdoms, Remember

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• We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

  Haile Selassie

  Courage, Men, Race

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• Entrepreneurs must be practical experts. They needn't set out to be subject matter experts in what they do; they must set out to solve a problem or pursue some cause or purpose greater than themselves.

  Simon Sinek

  Entrepreneur, Experts, Purpose

  "Two Types of Experts" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.

  Mark Skousen

  Failure, Pay, Ultimate Success

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• I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and to project our ideas upon them; to ride and drive them, and to make them symbolic, perhaps to a greater degree than any other species.

  Jane Smiley

  Horse, Ideas, Degrees

  Jane Smiley (2014). “A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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• No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

  Adam Smith

  Happiness, Equality, Society

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.33

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• With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

  Adam Smith

  Life, Success, People

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 11 (1776)

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• Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

  Adam Smith

  Travel, Business, Adventure

  Adam Smith (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Adam Smith (Illustrated)”, p.531, Delphi Classics

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• It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.

  Adam Smith

  Country, Banking, Economy

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.131

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• My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Views, Giving, Favour

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