Quotes 3141 till 3160 of 4584.
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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 changes in the chief and the assistant chief surgeon were most noticeable. At first they felt that they were just fulfilling their duty to the injured worker but were very dubious about the result. But then, full of confidence they really began doing their best.
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The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books.
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The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
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The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
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The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
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The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were supposed to be better or nearer to God than other men, their failings attracted more attention.
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The cliché that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.
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The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
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The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.
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The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good.
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
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