Quotes 381 till 400 of 4330.
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A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.
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A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and a mask on his face.
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A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
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A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
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A society that has made ''nostalgia'' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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A strong foe is better than a weak friend.
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A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.
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A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
De last die ze droegen (1990) 80 -
A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.
Orot Orot Hatchiah 14 -
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
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