Quotes 61 till 80 of 863.
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A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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A typical leader has - a natural tendency is to be defensive in the face of a crisis. The first reaction is to blame someone - or something - else. Often, the blame is aimed at something abstract or non-controllable, which often has nothing to do with the crisis but is adjacent to whatever is going on, so it's an easy target.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.
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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
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After 9/11, I knew I wanted to write about power and identity and the way Americans on all sides of the political spectrum often mythologize our leaders, which are themes that the superhero genre has always handled really well.
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After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.
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Ah, but it is incredible how often things force one to do the thing one would like to do.
Death in the Clouds (1935) -
All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
On War (1832) -
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
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All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
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All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
On War (1832) -
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.
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An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
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An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
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