Quotes 3101 till 3120 of 4548.
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The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.
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The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
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The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.
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The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.
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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
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The great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling-clouts.
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
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The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.
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The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
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The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
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