Quotes 17341 till 17360 of 25371.
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
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The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it.
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The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.
Source: Motherland (2012) -
The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.
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The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
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The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.
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The epitaphs on tombstones of a great many people should read: Died at thirty, and buried at sixty.
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The era of 'The Jungle Book' was when the animators were at the top of their game and their sense of character was great.
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The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.
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The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
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The essence of all immorality and sin is making ourselves the center around which we subordinate all interest.
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The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
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The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.
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The essence of liberalism is negotiation, a cautious half measure, in the hope that the definitive dispute, the decisive bloody battle, can be transformed into a parliamentary debate and permit the decision to be suspended forever in an everlasting discussion.
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The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
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The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
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The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different- to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
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