Quotes 5181 till 5200 of 8447.
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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
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Proponents of privatization argued that cities and states needed private capital to fund all the upgrades that our decaying infrastructure so desperately needed.
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Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
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Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,
And Thy pierced feet I clasp;
Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;
On me, with compassion fraught,
Let Thy glances fall.
Thy cross of agony,
My Beloved, look on me;
Turn me wholly unto Thee;
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Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt.
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Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.
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Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't know where she intends to drive it.
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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
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Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.
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Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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Quite a lot of British women stop working when they have children, and that is rarely the case in Denmark. We have a very flat, structured way of approaching everything. Nobody's the boss. In a sense, we're all equal.
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Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
In Defence Of Politics Ch. 5, A Defence Of Politics Against Technology, p -
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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