Quotes 7361 till 7380 of 10234.
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The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
Florence Nightingale
English social reformer, founder of modern nursing and statistician (1820 - 1910) -
The martyrdom of Lalaji has shaken the Congressmen. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru is planning something solid to be presented for adoption in the coming session of the Congress, but I am not sure if he would be able to do something.
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The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only - not from its privileged classes.
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The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is never for the sailor who knows not to what port he is bound.
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The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
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The meaning of life does not depend on where one is standing, but on towards where one is heading.
Original:El sentido de la vida depende no de donde se encuentre uno sino de adonde se dirija.
Zire Notes May 2004 December 2006 -
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.
Striking Thoughts (2000) -
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
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The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.
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The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
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The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public consciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs.
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The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.
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The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.
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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
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The men who make history have not time to write it.
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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.
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The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.
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