Quotes 1301 till 1320 of 1544.
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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
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This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power.
Contact (1985) Ch. 23 (p. 403) -
This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away.
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Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
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Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted.
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Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
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To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation.
Letter to Sir Horace Mann (27-05-1776) -
To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.
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To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.
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To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
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To create exponential growth in health care, we need to put tremendous resources and focus behind the best human minds working in this field.
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To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.
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To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.
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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
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