Quotes 7541 till 7560 of 10221.
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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.
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The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
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The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
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The primary reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.
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The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
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The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.
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The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
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The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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The problem is I'm not a good photographer. To be perfectly honest, I'm too shy. Not aggressive enough. Well, I'm not aggressive at all. I just loved to see wonderfully dressed women, and I still do. That's all there is to it.
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The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
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The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
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The problem is not with the faith, but with the faithful.
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The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.
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The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.
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The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not.
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The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received.
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The process of meditation does not take you to some new world; it only introduces you to the world where you have been for lives upon lives. The process of meditation does not add anything to you; it only takes away what is wrong, cuts it away, sheds it off.
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The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy.
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