Quotes 1541 till 1560 of 28471.
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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
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A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
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A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
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A drunkard is one thing, and a temperate man is quite another.
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A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal proceeding to try and recoup that money. Given the profession's notoriously low wages, however, it's probably not worth the publicity headache and legal fees. No news organization has ever pursued such a case.
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A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.
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A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
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A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.
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A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
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A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none.
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A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.
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A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
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A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.
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A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
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A father... knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.
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A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.
Principles of Political Economy (1836) II, I, V
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