Quotes 541 till 560 of 802.
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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.
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The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.
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The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.
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The difference between a good man and a bad is the choice of the cause.
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?
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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it.
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The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.
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The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.
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The eye is the notebook of the poet.
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The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
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The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.
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