Quotes 1881 till 1900 of 2595.
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The Georgia Dome was my home field, brother. There's no question about it. I played my first football game there as an Atlanta Falcon.
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The great decisions of human life usually have far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no universal recipe for living. Each of us carries his own life-form within him-an irrational form which no other can outbid.
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The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
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The great thing about having a child is that it keeps you very grounded. When I decided to have my daughter I was ready to have that responsibility and I made it clear to people that I work with that my job was no longer my priority. My daughter is now my priority. She comes first. Period.
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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.
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The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
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The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
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The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 198 -
The immigration must be limited, that is, first and foremost the foreign cultural one.
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The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
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The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.
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