Quotes 3141 till 3160 of 5065.
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Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
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Power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
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Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
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Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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Preserving the 30-year prepayable fixed-rate mortgage - it's like the bedrock of the housing system - is critical.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.
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Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time.
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Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father.
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Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.
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Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.
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Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.
Time's arrow, or, The nature of the offence (1991) -
Problems only exist in the human mind.
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Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
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Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
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Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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