Quotes 10141 till 10160 of 12035.
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To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
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To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good in themselves, and capable of a good use. But to overvalue riches, to give them a place in the heart which God did not design them to fill, this is covetous
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To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.
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To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence.
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To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
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Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
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Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy.
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies.
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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why - but the editorialists forget it - terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.
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Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but, disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort.
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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.
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Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
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Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain, you may be doing some good work.
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Today's business and health care climate may not be pleasant. Cutbacks, pay cuts and layoffs do not make anyone's job easy. But that does not mean that the humor need stop.
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Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an ''act'' and he told the audience, ''This is my act.'' Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.
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Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.
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