Quotes 601 till 620 of 1131.
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Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.
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Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.
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Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.
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Not necessity, not desire -no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing.
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Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
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Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Original:Le bon sense est la chose du monde la mieux partagée, car chacun pense en être bien pourvu.
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Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.
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Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt and long-term damage and their strategic impact.
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Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
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Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
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Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
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