Quotes 61 till 80 of 561.
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Because appearing to be fair is part of being fair, most mainstream news organizations discourage marching for causes, displaying political bumper stickers or giving cash to candidates.
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Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.
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Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
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Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, ''I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.
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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
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Bored with your present enemies? Make new ones! Tell two of your women friends that they look alike.
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Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.
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By giving professors jobs for life, universities create a feeling of unanswerable power among too many. Tenured professors who are uninterested in serving the student body are less likely to respond favorably to criticism, and are more likely to feel the freedom to intimidate or harass those with opposing viewpoints.
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Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
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Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.
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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
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Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.
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Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
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Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.
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Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.
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Dear Angry Older People, over 21-ish, anyone who considers themselves an adult, still bitter: Next time you're wondering what wrong with kids today, you might wanna check the examples you've been giving us to work with.
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
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Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.
Source: A Tale of Two Continents (1997) p. xv
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