Quotes 1641 till 1660 of 2161.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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The security of our nation depends on the men and women who are willing to sacrifice their safety, and possibly their lives, to protect the freedoms the rest of us enjoy.
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The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
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The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
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The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
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The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
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The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
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The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.
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The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
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The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
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The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.
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The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
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The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
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The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune.
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The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.
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