Quotes 3801 till 3820 of 4330.
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Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
Bernard M. Baruch
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Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.
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Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes.
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Using the word 'bossy' for girls can be quite harmful. What is that saying - that being focused, being assertive, being the boss has a negative attribute? And I have heard that term associated more with women than with men. 'He's so bossy' - you don't hear that. It's a very subtle thing.
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Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise.
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Usually, YouTube channels are named after the person that you see on camera... or in the case of ours, it could have been the show, but we didn't even name the company 'Red vs. Blue.' We named it something else to give people the idea that we were going to be doing more than that.
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Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex. As long as combat was desirable as the source of honor and glory, the knight had no wish to share it with the commoner, even for the sake of success.
A Distant Mirror -
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
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Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s.
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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
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Very few wars in American history were prepared better or more throughly than this one by this president.
March 1, 2003 -
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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Very often we developed a better grasp of the subjects than the over worked teachers.
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Vices are often habits rather than passions.
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
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Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
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Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
A Distant Mirror -
Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.
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Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.
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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
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