Quotes 601 till 620 of 717.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Thoughts left unsaid are never wasted.
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940) -
Tiger, tiger burning bright,
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye,
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To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.
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To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.
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To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
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To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.Source: Auguries of Innocence -
Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
Source: In Defence Of Politics Ch. 6, A Defence of Politics Against False Friends -
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
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Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
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Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.
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Unfortunately, I have been a little disappointed that we have issues out there like traditional marriage, abortion, school education, and we have so much silence from the black community, from black preachers, because they understand first hand the impact of all that.
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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
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War is the province of chance. In no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. It increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events.
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War is too important a matter to be left to the military.
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War isn't about who's right, it's about who's left
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Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.
Source: La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001) -
We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
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