Quotes 3921 till 3940 of 4622.
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To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
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To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.
The Intelligent Investor Ch. 20, Margin of Safety: The Central Concept, p. -
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
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To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution.
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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
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To avoid a military conflict, Saddam Hussein has no other choice than to leave the country.
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To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.
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To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
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To be a Sufi is to cease from taking trouble; and there is no greater trouble for thee than thine own self, for when thou art occupied with thyself, thou remainest away from God.
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To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
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To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.
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To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.
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To be interested in the changing seasons is, in this middling zone, a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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To be successful, a woman has to be better at her job than a man.
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To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.
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