Quotes 5481 till 5500 of 6479.
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To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.
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To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.
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To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
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To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
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To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one's manhood.
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To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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To be honest, as this world goes, is to be. One man picked out of ten thousand.
Hamlet 2,2 -
To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
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To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
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To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.
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To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
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To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.
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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
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