Quotes 181 till 200 of 12730.
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.
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Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
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Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
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Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
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Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
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Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
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Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
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Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
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Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.
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Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
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Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
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Drugs have destroyed many lives, but wrongheaded governmental policies have destroyed many more. I think it's obvious that after 40 years of war on drugs, it has not worked. There should be decriminalization of drugs.
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Each man can learn something from his neighbour, at least he can learn this, to have patience with his neighbour, to live and let live.
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Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
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Every time a child says, ''I don't believe in fairies,'' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
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Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
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