Quotes 341 till 360 of 393.
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Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
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We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.
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We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
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We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
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We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
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We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least.
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We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.
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We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.
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We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). We can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession of a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail- period!
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We really have everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.
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We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
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We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.
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Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.
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