Quotes 441 till 460 of 848.
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
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Ninety years after slavery, blacks were still segregated from whites. They still had separate drinking fountains, separate restrooms, separate neighborhoods, and separate schools. They still were expected to sit at the back of the bus.
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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
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No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.
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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
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No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.
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No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.
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No nation was ever ruined by trade.
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No other people have a government more worthy of their respect and love or a land so magnificent in extent, so pleasant to look upon, and so full of generous suggestion to enterprise and labor.
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
Judicial opinions Meinhard v. Salmon, 249 N.Y. 458, 164 N.E. 545 (N. -
Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
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Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
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Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.
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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.
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Now, when we say we want peace, what we want is really for our Palestinian neighbours to have a demilitarized state next to us that recognizes the Jewish State. We're willing to recognize their state, the Palestinian state. But we ask them to recognize the Jewish state.
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Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish. I'm crazy about L.A. because at the farmers' market you find all kinds of wild mushrooms.
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