Quotes 4901 till 4920 of 5261.
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When people will not weed their mind, they are apt to be overrun with nettles.
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When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they don't want to hear the word mentioned.
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When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.
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When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.
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When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, ''We did it ourselves.''
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When the culture is strong, you've got this consistency where black people can grow up in these places with this voice just resonating about our special-ness in the universe. And I always say you're in trouble if you get too far away from that core that grounds you.
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
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When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow - to the end at all costs.
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When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.
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When the Somalians were merely another hungry third world people, we sent them guns. Now that they are falling down dead from starvation, we send them troops. Some may see in this a tidy metaphor for the entire relationship between north and south. But it would make a whole lot more sense nutritionally - as well as providing infinitely more vivid viewing - if the Somalians could be persuaded to eat the troops.
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When the weather changes and hurricanes hit, nobody believes that the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed. It's the same stock market with the same mechanisms and the same people.
A Theory of Roughness -
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
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When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people.
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When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
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When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
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When they told me there would be a statue erected at Wrigley Field, I was happy with that. I know there will be a meeting place for a lot of people. There will be a conversation every day. They say now, 'I'll meet you at Ernie Banks' statue.' After Sept. 7, they'll say, 'I'll meet you by Billy Williams' statue.'
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When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.
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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
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When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they ''don't understand'' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
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