Quotes 1461 till 1480 of 1961.
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The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
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The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
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The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.
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The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
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The minute I stop singing, I'm back to being shy. I'm soft-spoken because I never really talked to people. I didn't learn to do it.
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The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
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The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.
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The modern little red riding hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objections to being eaten by the wolf.
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The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.
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The more people get advised to eat vegetables, the less it seems they wish to eat them. And it is quite a natural response. So I've said that the main way that we get to like food is through being exposed to them, but there's a second condition. We have to be exposed to them without feeling any sense of coercion.
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The most amazing thing you can ask for as an actor from a director is that you're being seen, that the choices made are informed.
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The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering.
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The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.
Gift from the Sea (1955) ch. 2 -
The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.
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The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
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The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being… can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.
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The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined.
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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
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