Quotes 3741 till 3760 of 3762.
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The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.
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The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.
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The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
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The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
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The world is the house of the strong. I shall not know until the end what I have lost or won in this place, in this vast gambling den where I have spent more than sixty years, dicebox in hand, shaking the dice.
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The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.
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There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world.
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There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.
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There are so many songs out there in the world that - if I know we have to come up with a new cover, then I'll just sit in my room and sing song after song and figure out which one I can kind of sing the best.
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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
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There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world's population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.
Prime Design (May 1960), later published in The Buckminster Fuller Reader (1970) edited by James MellerRichard Buckminster Fuller
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
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To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
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We must continue to prove to the world that we can provide a rising standard of living for all men without loss of civil rights or human dignity to any man.
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What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
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