Quotes 6261 till 6280 of 8617.
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The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
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The North Korean landscape is strikingly beautiful in places. It could be said to resemble America's Pacific Northwest - but substantially drained of color.
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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.
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The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. I mean, the fact of the matter is it's not that big of a country. Nobody, I don't think, had any notion that we would do anything but win it.
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The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.
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The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.
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The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
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The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
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The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
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The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.
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The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
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The older I get, the younger I feel. Growing up, I was always the kid, but I spoke like an adult and was in adult roles. I didn't feel like a kid. The older I get, I actually feel younger! Which is good. I always thought when you get older, you'll want to slow down, but I want to do even more.
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The only answer to the question 'Which is the worst of the 'Star Wars' movies?' is, there is no worst 'Star Wars' movie. There - one might be the least amazing and fantastic, but there's none that is the worst of the 'Star Wars' movies.
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The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.
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The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.
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The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
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