Quotes 3101 till 3120 of 5420.
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Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes.
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Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.
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Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
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Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.
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Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
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Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.
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Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.
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Punching your weight is one of boxing's most sensible rules. It's a handy one to abide by whether your battles lie in or out of a ring.
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Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.
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Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipice below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.
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Put your arm around the buddy next to you. And if you don't have any friends, I'll be your best friend in the whole world.
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Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.
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Putting together two powerful sets is always difficult. After you really pour it out one night, it's hard to pour it out the next night.
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Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
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Quite frankly, I can't get enough of soccer. I tell my jingoistic friends in the United States there's a reason why it is the world's No. 1 sport. The rest of the planet can't be wrong.
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Quitting smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
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Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.
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Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.
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Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.
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