Quotes 8001 till 8020 of 12035.
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The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized.
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The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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The aim of education should be to convert the mind into living fountain, and not a reservoir.
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The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
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The aim of morality is to give people a standard of action and a motive to work by which, they will not intensify each person's selfishness, but raise them up above it.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set some limit on infinite error.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
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The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.
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The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.
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The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs.
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The American people do not have the information upon which they can hold the administration and responsible agencies accountable. I call that a coverup.
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The American people should be informed about what kind of capability terrorists have inside the United States. They should be informed of why we are not using information to do a more effective job of dealing with terrorists.
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The American people should not be footing the bill for federal employees who stonewall Congress or rewarding government officials' bad behavior.
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The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.
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