Quotes 2121 till 2140 of 3120.
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The difference between rich and poor is that the poor do everything with their own hands and the rich hire hands to do things.
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The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.
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The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
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The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.
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The drafts from the regiments at Ticonderoga are a miserable set; indeed the men on board the fleet, in general, are not equal to half their number of good men.
Source: Letter to General Gates (21 September 1776), in Battle of Valcour on Lake Champlain, October 11th, 1776 by Peter Sailly Palmer(1876) p. 5 -
The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.
Source: Whats wrong with 40 Liverpool Road?, Daily Telegraph, 18 September 2003, p. 24. -
The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken.
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The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
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The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
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The end of times has always been a fascination. But post 9/11, pretty much everybody will admit to having it on their minds more frequently than when they were a kid.
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
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The era of 'The Jungle Book' was when the animators were at the top of their game and their sense of character was great.
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The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.
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The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
Source: Julius Caesar 3, 2 -
The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.
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The explosion in access to mobile phones and digital services means that people everywhere are contributing vast amounts of information to the global knowledge warehouse. Moreover, they are doing so for free, just by communicating, buying and selling goods and going about their daily lives.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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