Quotes 581 till 600 of 837.
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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.
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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
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The day after high school, I was off to basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Station. You gotta understand, we didn't care about sports. We wanted to win the war. We wanted to win the war! And at the time, we didn't know if we would.
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The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.
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The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.
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The difference between rich and poor is that the poor do everything with their own hands and the rich hire hands to do things.
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The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.
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The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street.
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The excitement is growing so much I think the Geiger counter of Olympo-mania is going to go zoink off the scale.
Source: On the forthcoming London Olympic Games. Daily Telegraph, 27 July 2012. -
The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
Source: Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. VIII, Ultimate Uses of the Stored Uni -
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
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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.
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The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
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The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
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The foodstuff, carbohydrate, is essentially a packet of hydrogen, a hydrogen supplier, a hydrogen donor, and the main event during its combustion is the splitting off of hydrogen.
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The full thing is God-given. I don't know how I got my swing or what I did. I know I worked every single day. I know I did as much as I could with my dad. But I never really looked at anything mechanical. There was nothing really like, 'Oh, put your hands here.' It was, 'Where are you comfortable? You're comfortable here; hit from there.'
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The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.
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The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he's really pissed off.
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