Quotes 5421 till 5440 of 5913.
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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one frame of mind and for the moment realizes itself.
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
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What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
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What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
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What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.
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Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.
Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. I, THE LITERATURE OF REVOLUTION, p. 1 -
Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.
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Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price.
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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When 'Blue Collar TV' was on the 'WB,' we were their second-highest rated show, but they didn't know what to do with us. They had 'Reba,' which was number one, and we were number two, and they didn't want to be known as the hayseed network, so they kind of dropped us, even though we were pulling great numbers.
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When 'MacGruber' came out, David Wain was one of the first people who publicly championed it.
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When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.
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When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.
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When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.
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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
Source: Wade House: one of Wisconsins first stagecoach inns, its preservation and restoration, Kohler Co., 1957, p. 7 -
When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.
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When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours.
Source: Pensees (1669)
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