Quotes 121 till 140 of 863.
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Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.
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Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
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Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, yet investors often fail to recognize it: Keep your costs low and your turnover lower, and you will win in the end.
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Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.
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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise ;in statesmanship.
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Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
A Time for Moral Courage, Readers Digest (July 1964) -
Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
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Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
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Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
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Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.
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Cuban eyes often look close to tears. Tears never seem far away because both their pain and their joy are always so close to the surface.
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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
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Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
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Death must be distinguished from dying, with which it is often confused.
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Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
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Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
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Details often kill initiative, but there have been few successful men who weren't good at details. Don't ignore details. Lick them.
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Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.
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