Quotes 581 till 600 of 848.
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The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
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The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.
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The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
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The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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The greatest in heroes in life are the anonymous. That's what I believe. Your neighbours are heroes. People who, when you walk down the street, you see them feeding their little baby - these people are heroes because they are living under difficult situations, but they're still trying to save a life.
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The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.
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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Speech of 24 june 1877 -
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
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The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough. We really have to be frank and honest.
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The idea of storage as a solution of economic problems at least has the support of common sense.It is diametrically opposed to the topsy-turvy Alice-in-Wonderland reasoning that has marked so much of our depression thinking and policy.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.
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The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.
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The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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The judicial process, as was said at the outset of these lectures, is a process of search and comparison, and little else.
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The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
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