Quotes 1001 till 1020 of 1105.
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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, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!
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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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Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am - my friends get round me - we chaff, we sparkle, we tell witty stories - and somehow my tongue gets wagging. I have the gift of conversation. I've been told I ought to have a salon, whatever that may be.
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What do we want from each other
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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 if Columbus had been told, Chris, baby, don't go now. Wait until we've solved our number-one priorities - war and famine; poverty and crime; pollution and disease; illiteracy and racial hatred....
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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 they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly: that they neither marry, nor are given in marriage.
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726) -
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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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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