Quotes 5221 till 5240 of 6958.
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The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.
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The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.
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The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.
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The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts - the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria - are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.
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The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.
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The sage does not hoard. Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more; having given all he has to others, he is richer still.
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The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
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The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.''
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
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The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.
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The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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The secret to a happy marriage is if you can be at peace with someone within four walls, if you are content because the one you love is near to you, either upstairs or downstairs, or in the same room, and you feel that warmth that you don't find very often, then that is what love is all about.
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