Quotes 18341 till 18360 of 25137.
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The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
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The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Source: Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963) -
The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
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The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
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The people around us are at the top of their craft, and we benefit from that.
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The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.
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The people follow what the media say. So if you said that Bruno Dumont is fantastic, it follows that more people would go to see my films. I have no wish to remain on the sidelines. I have no wish to make films that are only seen by bohemians in London and Paris.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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The people have now come to realize that the only way to deal with the oppressor is to deal on our own terms and this was done.
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The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.
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The people I'm furious with are the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket.
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The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.
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The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.
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The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.
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The people know the salt of the sea
and the strength of the winds
lashing the corners of the earth.
The people take the earth
as a tomb of rest and a cradle of hope.
Who else speaks for the Family of Man?Source: The People, Yes (1936) -
The people of the United States will not tolerate another deep depression that arises not from any lack of natural resources, productive capacity or man and brain power, but solely from imperfections in the functioning of the system of finance capitalism.
Source: Storage and Stability Part V, Ch. XIX, The Reservoir Plan and Tradition, -
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
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The people who are successful are those who are grateful for everything they have. Giving thanks for what we have always opens the door for more to come, and ungratefulness always closes the door.
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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
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