Quotes 801 till 820 of 4330.
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Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.
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Eagles that love the high light-penetrated air,
that has no dust and clog of earthborn dust,
must ever dwell in solitude.Chandos -
Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
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Eating right and exercising is more important than what you put on your face.
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
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Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.
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Employers, like most people, tend to trust their intuitions. But when employers decide whom to hire, they trust those intuitions far more than they should.
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Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
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Envy pierces more in the restriction of praises than in the exaggeration of its criticisms.
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Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.
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Esteem to virtue is like a cherishing air to plants and flowers, which maketh them blow and prosper.
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Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
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Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.
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Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.
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Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
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Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
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Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.
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Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.
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