Quotes 701 till 720 of 921.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.
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The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.
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The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.
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The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not.
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
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The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.
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The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
Source: Works (1913) IV, 315 -
The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
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The self-driving car is coming. And right now, our best supply of organs come from car accidents... Once we have self-driving cars, we can actually reduce the number of accidents, but the next problem then would be organ replacement.
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The silver medals I won in Salt Lake City didn't give me anything. Last year I set myself the goal of winning the World Cup and lining up a long series of wins. It was my private challenge.
Source: Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 [1] -
The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.
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The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
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The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.
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The thing about The Dubliners is - line'em up, the hardest rock'n'roll bands in the world, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Oasis, Nirvana, U2 - we're all a bunch of girls next to The Dubliners
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
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The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.
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