Quotes 381 till 400 of 560.
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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
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The first outbreak of America's 11-year skyjacking epidemic occurred in the summer of 1961, when four planes were seized in the nation's airspace. The last of these incidents, involving 16-year-old Cody Bearden and his father, Leon, is the one that finally forced the federal government to pay attention to the escalating crisis.
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The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.
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The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
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The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty.
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The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
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The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
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The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.
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The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.
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The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
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The last I heard of the young man in question, he was trying to eke out a miserable existence as a book agent while he was looking about for a position somewhere with the Government as a janitor or for some other equally humble occupation.
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The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.
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