Quotes 461 till 480 of 848.
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Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
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Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere.
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Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think.
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Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
The Intelligent Investor Ch. 20, Margin of Safety: The Central Concept, p. -
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
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Of that freedom [freedom of thought and speech] one may say that it is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
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On the education of the people of this country the fate of the country depends.
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Once for all, then, we are not opposed to the punishment of thieves and murderers; we are opposed to their manufacture.
Individual Liberty -
One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
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One of the biggest things we have to be able to do is to handle conflict and handle it correctly. We're able to look at our biases, look at our frustration, look at our sin in this area, our pride and our selfishness. It allows us to move forward.
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One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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One sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the scholars can appear Superior, and will not likely be suspected of Not Knowing Something.
The Tao of Pooh -
One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
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Our authors and scholars are generally men of business, and make their literary pursuits subservient to their interests.
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Our course of advance... is neither a straight line nor a curve. It is a series of dots and dashes.
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