Quotes 7801 till 7820 of 12035.
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Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
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Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
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Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.
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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
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Spite of all the fools that pride has made, 'Tis not on man a useless burthen laid; Pride has ennobled some, and some disgraced; It hurts not in itself, but as 'tis placed; When right, its views know none but virtue's bound; When wrong, it scarcely looks one inch around.
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Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.
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Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
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Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
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Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.
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Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891) -
Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.
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Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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Stockholm is unique in that it's built on islands and surrounded by water, so you get this enormous sense of freedom. It's got everything you could possibly need - everything New York or London has but without all the people and traffic. It's also become a very creative city, not only for music but also for fashion and computer games.
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Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage.
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Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
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Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride
You will not die, it's not poisonHighway 61 Revisited (1965)
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