Quotes 1841 till 1860 of 6261.
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
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Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt.
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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
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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.
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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
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Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
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Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.
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Guys like Todd Bridges never overcame being a child star. You can't have any big failures. I've always felt regular. I played organized ball at the rec league. At 13, they told me I sold 3 million copies. I didn't know what that meant.
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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
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Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
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Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.
Source: An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) XVIII, 11, 16 -
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
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Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
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Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.
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Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.
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