Quotes 181 till 200 of 304.
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
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Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
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Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
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Show me where Christ said "Love thy fellow man, except for the gay ones." Gay people, too, are made in my God's image. I would never worship a homophobic God.
Washington Post, 12 March 2010 -
Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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Some will not recognize the truthfulness of my mirror. Let them remember that I am not here to reflect the surface... but must penetrate inside. My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.
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Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
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State courts usually rule that correspondence between government officials, about government business, are public records, whether they use their government e-mail accounts or private ones.
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Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.
The Goldfinch (2013) 450 -
Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
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Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.
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Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
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Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the staircase and whom you do not like to greet.
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Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well.
Selected Writings on Computing (1982) p. 101
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