Quotes 421 till 440 of 10439.
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Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.
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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
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Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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Real Christianity is lovely. There is a quality about a Spirit-filled, radiant Christian that draws and attracts others and causes them to ''enjoy favor with all the people.'' The truth is that the gospel is not nearly as offensive as some of its proponents!
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Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
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Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?
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Seeing is not always believing.
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Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
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Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
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Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.
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Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.
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So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
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So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
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