Quotes 801 till 820 of 885.
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We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
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We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives behind them.
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We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1996) 330 -
We would often be sorry if our wishes were granted.
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Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.
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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
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Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
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Well, I don't give it out very often, but I reject the notion that you have to be a practitioner to give good advice.
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Well, this is an unfortunate part of the UN institution. It's the - the theater of the absurd. It doesn't only cast Israel as the villain; it often casts real villains in leading roles: Gadhafi's Libya chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights; Saddam's Iraq headed the UN Committee on Disarmament.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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What nationalist educators often fail to recognize is that merely being taught by teachers who are black has not and will not solve the problem if the teachers have been socialized to internalize racist thinking. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
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What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.
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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end.
De last die ze droegen (1990) 34 -
What we call the beginning is often the end and to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.
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When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.
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When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
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