Quotes 4961 till 4980 of 8429.
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Poverty does not make people terrorists, but terrorists can exploit the frustration it creates and use it as a breeding-ground for violent ideas.
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Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim.
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Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
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Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers.
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
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Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.
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Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.
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President Abbas, you've dedicated your life to advancing the Palestinian cause. Must this conflict continue for generations, or will we enable our children and our grandchildren to speak in years ahead of how we found a way to end it? That's what we should aim for, and that's what I believe we can achieve.
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President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.
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Pretty hard to sweep me off my feet. It would have to take someone very special. You never know. I guess when you least expect it, it's going to come.
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Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
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Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
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Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.
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Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
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Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence.
Notes on structured programming (1970) -
Progress of a marriage: ''There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.''
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