Quotes 5341 till 5360 of 5767.
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.
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When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently.
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When the Somalians were merely another hungry third world people, we sent them guns. Now that they are falling down dead from starvation, we send them troops. Some may see in this a tidy metaphor for the entire relationship between north and south. But it would make a whole lot more sense nutritionally - as well as providing infinitely more vivid viewing - if the Somalians could be persuaded to eat the troops.
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When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.
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When the U.K. or U.S. government issues bonds to fund a deficit, the buyers are not solely in the U.K. or the U.S. - they're in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Investment banks provide direct access to these buyers.
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When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
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When they are employed wisely, derivatives make the world simpler because they give their buyers an ability to manage and transfer risk.
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When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.
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When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002) -
When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer ''present'' or ''not guilty.''
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When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
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When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
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When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.
The Screwtape Letters (1942) -
When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
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When they told me there would be a statue erected at Wrigley Field, I was happy with that. I know there will be a meeting place for a lot of people. There will be a conversation every day. They say now, 'I'll meet you at Ernie Banks' statue.' After Sept. 7, they'll say, 'I'll meet you by Billy Williams' statue.'
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When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
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When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.
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