Quotes 341 till 360 of 385.
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To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
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TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.
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Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.
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War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.
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Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share in the guilt for the dead.
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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.
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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
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We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
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We have but very indifferent men in general. Great part of those who ship for seamen know very little of the matter.
Letter to General Gates (7 September 1776), in Battle of Valcour on Lake Champlain, October 11th, 1776 by Peter Sailly Palmer(1876) p. 5 -
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
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We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
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We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.
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We need to enact a strong standard that will stop a terrorist or illegal alien from getting a driver's license because border security is a major concern in a post-September 11th world.
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We should make a major financial commitment to improving our roads and bridges.
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We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes.
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We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound like these bands, so I just thought this was an opportunity for us to make the kind of records that we wanted and make some money at the same time.
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We're only one of a few states that have maintained our Triple-A bond rating from the major rating agencies.
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We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9/11 came along.
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What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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