Quotes 1921 till 1940 of 2959.
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Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.
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Power never takes a step back except in the face of more power.
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Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
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Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
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Pretty hard to sweep me off my feet. It would have to take someone very special. You never know. I guess when you least expect it, it's going to come.
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence.
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Progress leads to confusion leads to progress and on and on without respite. Every one of the many major advances - created sooner or later, more often sooner, new problems. These confusions, never twice the same, are not to be deplored. Rather, those who participate experience them as a privilege.
Source: Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988) -
Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
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Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
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Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.
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Read absolutely everything you get your hands on because you'll never know where you'll get an idea from.
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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
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Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
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Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
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