Quotes 3961 till 3980 of 20393.
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Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
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Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.
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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
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Few developments in campaigning have been as vilified and misunderstood as independent expenditure PACs, or, as they are colloquially known, super PACs.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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Few have heard of Fra Luca Parioli, the inventor of double entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.
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Few men have been admired of their familiars.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.
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Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.
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Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
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Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.
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Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
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Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.
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