Quotes 1081 till 1100 of 1785.
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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.
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People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.
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People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
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Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.
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Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.
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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
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Pessimism is as American as apple pie. Frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
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Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.
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Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
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Plato had slaves...George Washington had slaves...So, do I feel intrinsically better than these two men? Of course I do! They're dead!
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Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.
Source: Politics and the English Language (1945) -
Political necessities sometimes turn out to be political mistakes.
Source: Saint Joan (1923)
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