Quotes 321 till 340 of 15856.
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
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By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving.
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By Wisdom wealth is won; But riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.
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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
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Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
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Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
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Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing.
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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.
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Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.
Dick Gregory
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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
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Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
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Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
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Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
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Conscience is but a word that cowards use.
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Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.
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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
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Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.
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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
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