Quotes 1541 till 1560 of 2427.
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The advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.
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The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.
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The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger.
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The appropriation of public money always is perfectly lovely until some one is asked to pay the bill. If we are to have a billion dollars of navy, half a billion of farm relief, etc. the people will have to furnish more revenue by paying more taxes. It is for them, through their Congress, to decide how far they wish to go.
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The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.
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The banks have accounts with the Fed, much the same way that you have an account in a commercial bank.
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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.
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The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
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The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
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The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
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The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
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The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.
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The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up.
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