Quotes 7821 till 7840 of 20393.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but its effects.
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In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
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In a different era, I would have called myself a natural philosopher. All my life, I have enjoyed the reputation of being someone who disrupted prevailing ideas. Now that I'm in my 80th year, I can play on my age and provoke people even more.
New Scientist interview -
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.
The Peter Principle -
In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don't listen, you're going to strike out. You're going to fail miserably. The people you work with have got to know you're engaged and you're listening.
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In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.
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In a movie we try to deceive. In theaters, as they say, the deceived are the wisest.
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In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.
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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.
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In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.
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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.
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In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.
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In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand at the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that I'd become my enemy in the instance that I preached
My existence led by confusion boats, mutiny from stern to bow.Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964) -
In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.
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In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
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