- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Others Quotes
Looking past yourself, in different ways.
Several of these others quotes come from performers describing why they act at all — to inhabit lives beyond their own rather than just their own experience. For a lighter comparative angle, see Like quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
The death of Garang has unfortunately unleashed emotions of anger; some genuine, others cultivated by elements who wanted to pit one group of Sudanese against another.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
- Genuine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sending genuine refugees to face persecution in order to dissuade others from seeking to come here is plainly illegal.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.
- Bitten
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but elsewhere it is riven and presents cliffs, and these cliffs are not at all like that of Shakespeare at Dover but overhang, where hard beds alternate with others that are friable.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the pressure comes from myself, not from others. I don't need a manager or a pundit to put pressure on me. I do all that myself before others do it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my disinheritance by absorbing the world of others... I loved them: George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens... I adopted them passionately.
- Teach
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- Nov 07, 2020