Quotes 5661 till 5680 of 7742.
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The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.
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The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.
London Morning Post , December 3, 1925 -
The NBA and NHL have different agendas: The NBA is much more protective of its players and its brand; the NHL has less to lose, and it's in their best interest to generate buzz any way they can.
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The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
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The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.
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The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.
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The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one.
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The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap and they know it.
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The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
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The next release of mainline is going to have a lot of the advanced features people want, by the way.
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The Niagara Falls? Simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary rocks.
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The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.
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The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.
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The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
The Road Ahead p. 265 -
The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.
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The old, like children, talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!
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The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.
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