Quotes 541 till 560 of 860.
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Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain.
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Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.
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Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.
Source: Duma Key: A Novel (20082016) 559 -
Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying.
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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
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That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.
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That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
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That old law about ''an eye for an eye'' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
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The ''good old times'' - all times when old are good.
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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
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The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda, he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants.... He must go out into the villages, and see the natives at work in gardens, on the beach, in the jungle; he must sail with them to distant sandbanks and to foreign tribes.
Source: Myth in Primitive Psychology (1926)― Bronislaw Malinowski
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The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.
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The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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