Quotes 4921 till 4940 of 5767.
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Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
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Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.
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Virgin Galactic, which will be operating SpaceShipTwo, will be only one of several spacelines. The competitors for Virgin include the Russians, Bezos's Blue Origin, and possibly Rocketplane Kistler. And likely a couple of others who are smart enough not to tell people what they are doing!
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Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.
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Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing.
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Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.
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Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: ''It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss... ''
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Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
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Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.
Source: The Intelligent Investor Ch. 16, Convertible Issues and Warrants, p. 225 -
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share in the guilt for the dead.
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Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.
Source: La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001) -
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.
Source: Cavalry Journal (september 1933) -
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean - make sure they know what they mean!
Source: A prayer for Owen Meany (1989) -
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
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Way over yonder is a place I have seen
In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.Source: Tapestry (1971) Way Over Yonder -
WCW wasn't what I thought it should be. I thought it could be better. I would make suggestions, but nobody would want to hear them. They think you want their job. Please. It would be easier doing their job because they're used to doing nothing.
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We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word admire then means marvel at.
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We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
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