Quotes 201 till 220 of 546.
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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
Bernard M. Baruch
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If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
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If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
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If the 19th was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the collective century, and therefore the century of the state.
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If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
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If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.
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If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.
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If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
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In '38, this time I did a job for Mr. Stryker. I went on his payroll at about half the salary I was getting before, to cover what he called Harvest in Ohio.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.
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In terms of representation, television is reflecting an era that has passed. It's the wrong time; it's the wrong period. In all sorts of television, it doesn't feel like the 21st century.
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In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.
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In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.
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In the documentary 'Facing Ali,' nearly half the fighters involved required subtitles despite speaking English, their speech slurred by the physical toll of their ring lives. This was their reward for testing their furthermost physical and mental boundaries.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
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In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
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In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.
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In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing.
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