Quotes 3821 till 3840 of 5420.
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The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it [The Territory] is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.
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The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is.
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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
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The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
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The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
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The riches of life, the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It's cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.
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The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.
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The rivers of America will run with blood filled to their banks before we will submit to them taking the Bible out of our schools.
As quoted in "Leaving the fold: testimonies of former fundamentalists" by Edward T. Babinski, Prometheus Books, 1995, p. 435 -
The rugs that I picked out and the pillows with the little owls, sort of like whimsical throw pillows - I feel like you can never enough whimsical throw pillows in your house, in your life. My husband probably disagrees.
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The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.
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The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
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The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.
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The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
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The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
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The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
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The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.
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The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
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The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.
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