Quotes 1481 till 1500 of 1835.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
Source: Forbes Epigrams Or 1,000 Thoughts on Life -
There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
Source: The Naked Civil Servant (1968) Ch. 15 -
There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
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There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.
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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.
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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
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There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
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There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
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There we go, that's it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.
Source: Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra -
There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.
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There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.
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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
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There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.
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They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.
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They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.
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They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.
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They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.
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