Quotes 21081 till 21100 of 25152.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good in themselves, and capable of a good use. But to overvalue riches, to give them a place in the heart which God did not design them to fill, this is covetous
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To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
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To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then to go to hell after all would be too damned hard.
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To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.
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To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
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To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high, we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 19 (To an Athlete Dying Young), st. 2 -
Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
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Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.
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Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap.
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Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.
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Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
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