Quotes 1401 till 1420 of 2273.
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
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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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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth
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Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for.
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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Producers are men who will keep their heads in the noisy presence of writers and directors and not be carried away by art in any of its subversive guises. Their task is to guard against the unusual. They are the trusted loyalists of cliche.
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Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
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Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
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Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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Reason gains all men, by compelling none.
Mercy was always Heaven's distinguished mark:
And he, who bears it not, has no friend there.Alzira (1736) Act I, Sc. 1 -
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
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Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Sketches by Boz (1836-1837) Characters, Ch. 2 : A Christmas Dinner
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