Quotes 2301 till 2320 of 25360.
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Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.
Source: Ghostwritten (2017) 122 -
Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.
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Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary... That has always been a potent combination.
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Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
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Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
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Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
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Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back;
And is a swelling, and the last affection
A high mind can put off; being both a rebel
Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth
All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion,
and offereth violence to nature's self.Source: Catiline His Conspiracy -
Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.
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America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.
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America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of the land is to be found in its movement. It is to be felt as a dramatic force of energy and vitality. We move; we do not stand still. We have not yet arrived at the stock-taking stage.
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America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you - no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact.
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America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.
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America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.
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America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
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America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
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America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
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America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.
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America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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