Quotes 381 till 400 of 3972.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.
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America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstrably cure is heterosexuality.
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America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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Americans now know that housing prices can go down and they can go down by 10, 20, 30, and in some cases, 40 or 50 percent. We know they can go down. But five years ago, we thought they could only go up.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books.
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An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
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An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.
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An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What’s your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books'.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (2015) -
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
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An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
The C++ Programming Language. p.713 -
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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