Quotes 741 till 760 of 1090.
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The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life.
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The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
Source: Address to Unitarian Ministers -
The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.
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The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
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The FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program would work hand-in-hand with police departments, literally planning attacks on Black Panther Party offices throughout the United States of America. They did this over a period of time.
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The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.
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The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.
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The first two battles of this new era are now over. The battles of Afghanistan and Iraq has been won decisively and honorably.
Source: April 28, 2003 -
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over the harbor and city
on silent haunches, and then moves on.Source: Fog (1916) -
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
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The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
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The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
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The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
Source: A Woman of No Importance Act 3 -
The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
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The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.
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