Quotes 3401 till 3420 of 4622.
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The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
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The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.
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The NBA and NHL have different agendas: The NBA is much more protective of its players and its brand; the NHL has less to lose, and it's in their best interest to generate buzz any way they can.
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The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 1014 neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness.
Cosmos (1980) -
The next revolution, the next trend is to be an intelligence-intensive company. That has more value to society than a labor-intensive company.
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The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.
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The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.
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The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
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The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.
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The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.
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The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.
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The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
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The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
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The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.
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