Quotes 2001 till 2020 of 3477.
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Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
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Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
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Publicity is the life of this culture. Without publicity capitalism could not survive and at the same time publicity is its dream.
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Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
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Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.
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Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.
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Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
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Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.
Source: As quoted in Cat Stevens Gives Support To Call for Death of Rushdie, by Craig R. Whitney, in The New York Times (23 May 1989), p. C18 -
Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.
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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
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Real food doesn't have ingredients, real food is
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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Original:La vraie générosité envers l'avenir consiste à tout donner au présent.
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