Quotes 841 till 860 of 1131.
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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Henrietta Temple (1837) IV, ch 1 -
The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act. It is the guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities and the disenfranchised out of the mainstream is if you price their original services too high.
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The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.
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The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.
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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
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The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.
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The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.
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The only true criticism of high art is silence, silence as grand as heaven itself.
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The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
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The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.
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The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.
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The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
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The post-war publish or perish tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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The Premier League is a very strong league. Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, and Liverpool all have a high quality. But those who know me also know that I always want to win titles. And I think that Manchester United are a club which can win titles.
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The President forgot to mention the Moon, Mars, and the federal deficit - all of which are sky-high.
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