Quotes 1301 till 1320 of 1714.
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The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.
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The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
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The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.
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The organized charity, scrimped and iced, in the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.
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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
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The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.
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The poetry of the earth is never dead.
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The poetry of the foot.
The Rival Ladies (1664) 3, 1 -
The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.
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The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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The power to tax is the power to destroy.
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The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.
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The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.
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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
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The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.
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The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.
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