Quotes 141 till 160 of 1829.
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A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general
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A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have
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A recipe is not an exact formula, but it does need a certain structure. When the bones are right, you can dress it in many ways.
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A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
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A right is not what someone gives you, it's what no one can take away from you.
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A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
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A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.
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A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
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A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.
Source: Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 58 min 56 sec -
A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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A word carries far - very far - deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.
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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
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Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
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After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
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