Quotes 801 till 820 of 1194.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Por blessing ever waits on virtuous deeds, I and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
The Mourning Bride (1697) 5, 12 -
Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.
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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 more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singing but his piano playing. Whenever he had a new record come out, I'd get it and try to learn how he was playing. And he was one of the nicest people I'd ever met.
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Probably the best advice I ever got in my life was from the head of the accounting department, Mr. Hutchinson, I believe at the Glidden Company in Chicago, and he told me, 'You really aren't cut out for accounting.'
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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
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Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.
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Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
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Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Different Seasons (1982) -
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
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Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
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Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.
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Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.
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Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
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Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.
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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
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Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.
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September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.
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