Quotes 9181 till 9200 of 10005.
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When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
Source: The African Queen (1935) -
When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
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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) -
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
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When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?
Source: Observer (30 september 1956) -
When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
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When a woman like that whom I've seen so much,
All of a sudden drops out of touch;
Is always busy and never can,
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When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
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When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his.
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When AIDS hit, lots of people banded together to take care of each other and do what the government wasn't doing. When you grow up Jewish, as I have, you learn that everybody hates you, no one's going to help you, and you have to take care of yourself. That's a great maxim to the gay community, and we took it to heart; we took care of our own.
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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
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When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?
Source: State of the Union Addresses of Benjamin Harrison -
When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
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When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant.
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