Quotes 7901 till 7920 of 10331.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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The Tunisian people will not bow. We will stay united against terrorism until we wipe out this phenomenon.
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The turgid style of Johnson, the purple glare of Gibbon, and even the studied and thickset metaphors of Junius are all equally unnatural, and should not be admitted into our company.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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The U.K. and almost all of Europe have erred in terms of believing that austerity, fiscal austerity in the short term, is the way to produce real growth. It is not. You've got to spend money.
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The U.S. constitution is an extraordinary document. In my view, it should not be amended often.
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The U.S. is supposed to be a nation of second chances, but for the 70 million Americans with a criminal record, we're not doing such a great job. Even among those whose crimes were nonviolent and committed long ago, too many still bear a scarlet letter.
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The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
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The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously.
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
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The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, divine.
The Practice of Psychotherapy (1953) p. 364 -
The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.
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The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.
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The United States is a big country but unfortunately it seems it has the brain of a little bird not befitting the greatness of the country.
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The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
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The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
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The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam
Speech UN 24-09-2014 -
The universe is not friendly to despots, and they all perish sooner of later.
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