Quotes 3741 till 3760 of 4330.
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To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.
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To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Virginibus Puerisque (1881) El Dorado -
To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.
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To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
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To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
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To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.
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Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap.
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Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes
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Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.
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Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
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Too many children are being parked in substandard day care with workers who make little more than a parking attendant.
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Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
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Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
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Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.
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