Quotes 261 till 280 of 348.
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The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
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The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.
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The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
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The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.
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The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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The problem that has no name (which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities) is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.
Source: The Feminine Mystique Ch. 14 A New Life Plan for Women -
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.
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The side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain.
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The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.
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The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.
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The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
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The tragic case of Terri Schiavo in Florida highlights the importance of making our health-care wishes known.
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The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
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The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric.
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
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