Quotes 921 till 940 of 1583.
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One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
Year to Success -
Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
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Only presidents, editors and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial 'we'.
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Opportunity is like a bald-headed man with only a patch of hair right in front. You have to grab that hair, grasp the opportunity while it's confronting you, else you'll be grasping a slick bald head.
Speech at the Carrie Tuggle Institute, Birmingham (date unknown) [6] -
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
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Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
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Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
First inaugural address, Washington, D.C. (January 20, 1993) -
Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
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Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.
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Our pre-9/11 gun laws allow our enemies in the War on Terror to arm themselves right here in our own country.
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Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
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Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.
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Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.
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Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
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Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.
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Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.
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Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.
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