Quotes 3161 till 3180 of 4622.
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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
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The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
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The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
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The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
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The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.
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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
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The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
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The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.
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The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
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The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.
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The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I’ve read so often that I’ve internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.
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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.
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The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.
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The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.
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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
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The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books.
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