Quotes 6661 till 6680 of 6747.
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Consul. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
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Every good servant does not all commands.
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Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
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Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.
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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
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He knows little, who will tell his wife all he knows.
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Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.
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I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.
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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
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I love the way people talk crap. I hear it all the time. 'Overrated.' 'You suck.' I'll just do something to shut them up, like, 'I'll show you.'
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I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.
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I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
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I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.
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I've been dealing with politicians all my life. They are all talk, no action.
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If a company's stock is undervalued - as many managers believe theirs is - a repurchase may offer the best payoff of all.
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