Quotes 241 till 260 of 866.
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During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell to the Communists, the Russians moved into Afghanistan, and American influence around the globe waned dramatically.
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Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to hate. Something sacred. But what a waste.
Tomcat in Love (2011) 319 -
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
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Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.
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Even after I played ten years of ball, I still felt like I had to play well or somebody might take my place. They had plenty of players in the minor leagues who were good enough to come up and take your job, and I think that kept us going all of the time. I hustled and put that extra effort in all of the time.
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Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.
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Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.
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Even though you really don't feel like you're motivated to go to the gym, remember how good you felt after the last time you went. Keep that in the forefront of your brain.
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Events, I say to the Captain, events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.
Beyond Apollo Ch. 60 -
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.
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Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.
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Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
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Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.
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Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
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Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.
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Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.
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Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
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Expose yourself to your deepest fear: after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
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