Quotes 41 till 60 of 99.
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If presidents don't do it to their wives, they do it to the country.
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If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.
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If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
Source: Once around the sun (1951) -
In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture.
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In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked behind most of the early plays. But not now. There is no conviction now that the problem will be solved.
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In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.
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It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
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It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
Source: Once around the sun (1951) -
It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.
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Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
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Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.
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Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it.
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No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
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No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
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