Quotes 1121 till 1140 of 1615.
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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
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The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
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The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
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The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark - without charging anyone with a crime.
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The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie - it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.
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The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
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The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature's bare blade without shedding our own blood.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
The more people get advised to eat vegetables, the less it seems they wish to eat them. And it is quite a natural response. So I've said that the main way that we get to like food is through being exposed to them, but there's a second condition. We have to be exposed to them without feeling any sense of coercion.
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The more you learn to live without, the more you'll have to live with.
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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
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The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
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The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
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The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.
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The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
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The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
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The other world is as to this like the east to the west. We cannot approach the one without turning away from the other.
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