Quotes 281 till 300 of 631.
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If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
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If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
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If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.
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If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
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If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, ''Candle making industry threatened''.
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If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.
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If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war, for being free of abuse, or for having food, warmth, clothing, and shelter - we would have no reason to go on. What you hope for doesn't matter, but rather the essence of hope itself.
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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
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If you ask the fish whether they'd rather have an oil spill or a season of fishing, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd vote for another blowout.
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If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.
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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
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If you're scared to lose rather than excited to win, then that's the wrong way to approach a race.
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In 1922, I got a small stipend from the Swedish-American Foundation and went to Cambridge, England, for a few months and thereafter to Harvard University. In the summer, Cambridge was rather empty, but I am grateful for many pleasant talks about economics with Austin Robinson who, in the summer of 1922, seemed to be about as lonely as I was.
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In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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In India, we kind of concentrate only on weight loss. I want to teach people that it is very important to be strong and fit, rather than just thin.
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In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.
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In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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