Quotes 1481 till 1500 of 27600.
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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.
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A confession has to be part of your new life.
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A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
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A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futility.
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
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A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.
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A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution.
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A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.
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A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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A critic should be a pair of snuffers. He is oftener an extinguisher, and not seldom a thief.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
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A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
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A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.
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