Quotes 2561 till 2580 of 3340.
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The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
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The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
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The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of the law, the courts of justice. Every new case is an experiment, and if the accepted rule which seems applicable yields a result which is felt to be unjust, the rule is reconsidered.
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The Russians have a lot at stake, and the power of Moscow pride should never be underestimated.
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The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
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The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
The picture of Dorian Gray (1891) -
The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
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The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
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The Sicilian Defense album was never released and never will be if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist.
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The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.
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The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.
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The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.
In: Stapleton, Jim. Smashing Pumpkins (1996) -
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
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