Quotes 1261 till 1280 of 1877.
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Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.
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Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.
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Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
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Summits like those in Geneva promote hope. But hope without action is hopeless. Our enthusiasm for the positive spirit in these deliberations must not blind us to the absence of genuine progress toward disarmament. Twenty-four nuclear bombs are being added weekly to world arsenals.
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Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.
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Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
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Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.'
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Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system's separate parts or any subassembly of the system's parts. There is nothing in the chemistry of a toenail that predicts the existence of a human being.
Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash.
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
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Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given time outside of one's own home, an American citizen can reasonably assume his movements and actions are being monitored by something, by somebody, somewhere.
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Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: ''Are your ready?''
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Talking back and being quite aggressive about stuff and not giving a care in the world about anyone. So it was more, I think, that way and I think that's what happened in that party when I stood in between two people.
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Tax rates should never be raised in some brackets without being raised in all brackets.
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Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
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That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.
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That he not busy being born is busy dying.
Source: It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) -
That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.
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That what we have, we prize not to the worth
whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost,
why, than we rack the value.Source: Much ado about nothing (1598)
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