Quotes 3721 till 3740 of 4321.
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To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
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To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.
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To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
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To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
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To reject awards is another way to accept them with more noise than normal.
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To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
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To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
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To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day: thou canst not then be false to any man.
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To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Virginibus Puerisque (1881) El Dorado -
To try and change opinion by law is worse than futile.
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To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
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To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
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To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.
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Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap.
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