Quotes 821 till 840 of 841.
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You're always more critical of your own country. People will talk about stuff in Britain, and I'll go: 'Aw, it's not that bad,' but at home, it's different. It's inside you.
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You're never s good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
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You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I'll bet he was glad to get rid of it.
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Alone: In bad company.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary -
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
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Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man - and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.''
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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
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I've dealt with politicians my entire life. You never make a bad deal with a politician. They're so easy.
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Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government.
Source: Thomas Jefferson 49 -
Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.
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Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.
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The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.
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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
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What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
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