Quotes 761 till 780 of 4584.
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Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
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Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.
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Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.
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Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.
"Q&A with Carlos Ghosn" published in CNN website on December 7, 2006. -
Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.
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Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.
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Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
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Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.
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Congress and the White House are working out their scheme for pushing through a healthcare 'reform' bill that has more pages than the U.S. Constitution has words. I guarantee you that not a single member of the House or Senate has a complete understanding of that legislation any more than they understood all the implications of the USA PATRIOT Act back in 2001.
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Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
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Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
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Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
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Constitutions do not emerge perfectly formed from the brain of the philosopher king, as Mr. Trudeau himself discovered in 1980 and 1981. They are always messy processes that are easier to knock down or tear apart than they are to construct.
The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Seven, The Three Questions and the Question of -
Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.
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