Quotes 9841 till 9860 of 10005.
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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active -not more happy -nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
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I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
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I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
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I start where the last man left off.
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
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If a man falls once, all will tread upon him.
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If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
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If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.
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If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
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Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
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Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
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Irreligion. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.
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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.
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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
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It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
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