Quotes 981 till 1000 of 1663.
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Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
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Take up the White Man's burden - send forth the best ye breed - go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.
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Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
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Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.
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Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
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Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.
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Temptations, when we first meet them, are like a lion that roared at Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.
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Thank God we don't know a lot about Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautreamont. These are the best guys we got, and their art is powerful because they're mysterious.
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That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
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That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
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That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.
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That is the best - to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
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That is the best case for Bush; that, among other things, he liberated Iraq. It is good enough for me.
Source: Daily Telegraph 26 February 2004 -
That is the best Government, which best provides for war.
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That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best -make it all up -but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.
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That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.
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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
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That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.
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