Quotes 2821 till 2840 of 4321.
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Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'
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Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
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Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.
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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill-will.
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She too had found the experience transforming. How could she not? A demon had been exorcised. Several. And just when she felt more capable of love than she had ever been, she found herself alone.
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She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.
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Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.
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Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.
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Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.
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Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?
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Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
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Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
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Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.
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Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
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Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
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Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
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Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
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Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
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