Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 15856.
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A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.
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A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
In Defence Of Politics Ch. 4, A Defence Of Politics Against Nationalism, -
A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
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A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
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A president's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.
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A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.
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A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
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