Quotes 521 till 540 of 2435.
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Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.
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Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
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Government is really successful when it's willing to make big, bold objectives, like, 'We're going to get to the moon.' But without leaders with big ideas, we get stuck.
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Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
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Grandpa didn't have any idea of customer service. But he wanted to make a living. Eventually, we saw it was not in our best interest to be arguing with customers.
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
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Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.
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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
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Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.
On War (1832) -
Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.
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Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
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Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
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Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.
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Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
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Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.
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Have a picture in mind of the kind of career you want, the kind of writer you want to be. This will help you make tough decisions when you reach crossroads - choosing an agent, deciding to accept deals.
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