Quotes 5621 till 5640 of 5914.
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Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.
Billions and Billions: Thoughts of Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium (1997) Ch. 14, The Common Enemy -
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
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Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.
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With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.
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With a huge storm, you need a lot of volume, but it can't become one loud noise. Dolby Atmos helped a lot because it gave us the separation of those elements.
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With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.
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With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
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With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world's entire population using one communication technology, that's a big deal. It's beyond the theoretical at this point. The people who think it's a fad have probably not been paying that much attention.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
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With one hand he put a penny in the urn of poverty, and with the other took a shilling out.
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With so many amazing artists on one bill, we expect this concert to be incredibly powerful in its ability to raise both money and awareness for the long-term rebuilding effort we must all support.
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