Quotes 4541 till 4560 of 4584.
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No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
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No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.
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No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
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Not enjoyment and not sorrow, is our destined end or way; but to act that each tomorrow find us farther than today.
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Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than today.
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Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
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Our civilization is characterized by the word ''progress.'' Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only
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Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.
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Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
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Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.
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President Obama's biggest advocates believe that Americans are ready to embrace his vision for the United States: a less muscular America on the world stage, an America with a more controlling executive branch and less conflict in the legislative branch, an America in which the government takes care of us, be we Pajama Boys or Julias.
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Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
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Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
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The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.
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The busiest man needs no more hours of rest than the idle.
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The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year - far less than the property value lost on a single day when 17 mansions slid down a hill in 2005 in Laguna Beach, Calif.
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