Quotes 4521 till 4540 of 6249.
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The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.
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The State can always afford to finance what its citizens can soundly produce.
Source: Storage and Stability Part I, Ch. III, The Problem of Conserving Surplus -
The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.
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The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.
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The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
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The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 77 -
The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy. The study of self-actualizing people must be the basis for a more universal science of psychology
Source: Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 234 -
The success of the storytellers - we're only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. Aspects of surprise and letting things play out for the audience - it's so much a part of their enjoyment. It's one of the great things about working in the movies and being a great storyteller.
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The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
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The support of organizations including the NY Jets, Canon USA, USA Football, and Outback Steakhouse is a great example of how corporate America can make an impact in bettering the communities where employees work and live.
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The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.
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The task is to transform society; only the people can do that - not heroes, not celebrities, not stars.
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The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.
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The tension between 'yes' and 'no,' between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
Source: Bella!: Ms. Abzug goes to Washington -
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: ''Behold! These things are.'' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: ''This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.''
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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
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The thing about New York is it's like London: you want to go to the boutique places. You can go to the big department stores - Barney's, Bloomingdales and all that stuff - but I like the little stores.
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The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.
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