Quotes 1401 till 1420 of 25360.
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A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults.
Source: De Peetvader p. 391 -
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
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A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
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A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.
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A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.
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A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people.
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A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.
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A gentleman is a man whose principal ideas are not connected with his personal needs and his personal succes.
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A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
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A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she 'adjust' to prejudice and discrimination.
Source: The Feminine Mystique Ch. 1 The Problem That Has No Name -
A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.
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A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
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A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.
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A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.
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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
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A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.
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A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
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