Quotes 421 till 440 of 5261.
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A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.
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A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.
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A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
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A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest Act 3 -
A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
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A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.
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A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is.
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About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
Source: Speech at the University of Washington, as reported in Gates, Buffett a bit bearish CNET News (2 July 1998) -
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
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Accept good advice gracefully—as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.
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Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.
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Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
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Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
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Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.
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Acting in movies is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left.
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