Quotes 1641 till 1660 of 2849.
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People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.
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People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That's utter nonsense.
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People used to say of the two Oliphant brothers that Harlan Oliphant looked as if he lived in the Oliphant's house, but Dan didn't.
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People used to want to be filmmakers and animators; now they want to make apps.
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People who can pull you in and take you on a journey, as opposed to simply adding flash. Again, that feels very clinical, and I don't respond to that the way I used to.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.
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People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
Source: The quotable Calvin Coolidge: sensible words for a new century (2001) -
Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
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Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.
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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
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Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
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Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
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Periodically, at the end of a conversation, someone will ask me, 'Is there something I can do for you?' I used to answer with 'Do something that is helpful to something or someone in my world.'
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Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.
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Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.
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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
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Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
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Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.
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