Quotes 2001 till 2020 of 2849.
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The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
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The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ''But''.
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The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
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The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.
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The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
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The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
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The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.
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The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.
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The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty. The MDGs, with eight goals and a set of measurable time-bound targets, established a blueprint for tackling the most pressing development challenges of our time.
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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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The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.
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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
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The most accomplished way of using books at present is to serve them as some do lords, learn their titles, and then boast of their acquaintance.
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The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
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The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the cafe or something doing something weird. It's amazing what people do, isn't it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.
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The most amazing thing you can ask for as an actor from a director is that you're being seen, that the choices made are informed.
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