Quotes 1761 till 1780 of 2063.
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Unlike the United States Congress, which mostly forbids outside employment, state legislatures are generally composed of people with other careers.
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Up on Housing Project Hill, it's either fortune or fame. You must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.
Source: Highway 61 Revisited (1965) -
Upon awakening he discovered that he was no longer a wooden puppet, but that he had become instead a boy, like all other boys.
Source: Pinocchio (1892) -
Vast Numbers throng'd the fruitful Hive;
Yet those vast Numbers made 'em thrive;
Millions endeavouring to supply
Each other's Lust and Vanity.Source: The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 31, p. 3 -
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
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Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
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War is a continuation of policy by other means. It is not merely a political act but a real political instrument.
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War Is Merely the Continuation of Policy by Other Means
We see, therefore, that war is not merely an act of policy but a true political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse carried on with other means. What remains peculiar to war is simply the peculiar nature of its means.Source: On War (1832) Ch. 1, Section 24, in the Princeton University Pre -
War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
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War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
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War is the province of chance. In no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. It increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events.
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We ''need'' cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.
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We actually aren't able to play other people's songs. The one Stones song we tried to play was Jumpin' Jack Flash. It was really bad. So we started writing our own — it was easier.
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We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.
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We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.
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We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other.
Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time (2005) -
We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
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