Quotes 4641 till 4660 of 5916.
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The US has broken the second rule of war. That is, don't go fighting with your land army on the mainland of Asia. Rule One is don't march on Moscow. I developed these two rules myself.
Source: In the House of Lords on American policy in Vietnam, 1962. -
The value of a scientific publication goes beyond this simple benefit, of all relevant information appearing, unambiguously, in one place. It's also a way to communicate your ideas to your scientific peers, and invite them to express an informed view.
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
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The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgement to have safely traveled from star to star.
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994) -
The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis. And that's been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window.
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The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets (1845) -
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
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The virtue of a medicine probably lies to a considerable extent in the will to get well with which one purchases it.
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The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.
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The way out of the maze of whiteness and blackness that led inevitably, repeatedly, to violent conflict was through the simple recognition of and respect for blacks and whites as not two races but one: the human race.
Source: The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003) -
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
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The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
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The Who is one of my favorite bands of all time. 'The Who Sell Out' is one of the greatest art-project albums of all time.
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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.
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The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another
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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
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The whole point of the game is not to stick with one thing, because when that one thing ends, then what are you going to do? For me, I have movies, '106 & Park,' music, and other things to fall back on.
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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
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