Quotes 521 till 540 of 802.
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Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
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Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
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That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
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That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
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The ''paper tiger'' hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.
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The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.
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The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.
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The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
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The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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The art of communication is the language of leadership.
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The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.
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The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
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The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
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The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.
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The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.
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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
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