Quotes 281 till 300 of 371.
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The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing, when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors.
On liberty (1859) -
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
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The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
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The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.
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The greatest men have not always the best heads; many indiscretions may be pardoned to a brilliant and ardent imagination. The prudence and discretion of a cold heart are not worth half so much as the follies of an ardent mind.
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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The habit I've developed is to write in any free half hour I might find.
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The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
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The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.
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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
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The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices - against half the human race - that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.
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The Muslim world just doesn't believe that skin color is all that important. Obama may be half-black, but he's still all-Western, according to them. It doesn't matter whether you're black, white or green - if you're not a devotee of Muhammad, you don't matter.
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The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
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The search for someone to blame is always successful.
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The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.
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The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
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