Quotes 221 till 240 of 338.
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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
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The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
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The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be too different and they'll pull you down.
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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
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The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.
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The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
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The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.
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The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.
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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
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The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.
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The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
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The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
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The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.
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The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
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The key to high-quality communication is trust, and it's hard to trust somebody that you don't know.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.
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