Quotes 6201 till 6220 of 10005.
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Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
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Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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Opportunity is like a bald-headed man with only a patch of hair right in front. You have to grab that hair, grasp the opportunity while it's confronting you, else you'll be grasping a slick bald head.
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Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-haired child.
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one consider that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
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Originaliteit is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
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Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough:
Man meets woman, and they fall in love,
But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough.
You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.Source: Tunnel Of Love (1987) Tunnel of Love -
Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.
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Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.
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Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS - our inferior one varies with the place.
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Our criteria is that it's okay to invest in companies so long as they stop lobbying in Washington, stop exploring for new hydrocarbons, and sit down with every one else to plan to keep 80 percent of the reserves in the ground.
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