Quotes 161 till 180 of 194.
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They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
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This is the essence of the problem. To Dan Rather and to a lot of other powerful members of the chattering class, that which is right of center is conservative. That which is left of center is middle of the road. No wonder they can't recognize their own bias.
Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News -
Though the only road to freedom lie through the gates of death, those gates must be passed; for freedom is indispensable.
The Professor (1857) ch. XXV -
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks with a rasor.
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To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high, we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 19 (To an Athlete Dying Young), st. 2 -
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
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Until the people, by amendment, change the constitution, I urge that the counties cooperate with one another, that future road work be more uniform, and done in such a way that it will result in connected and continuous highways.
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Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
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We are, I think, in the right road of improvement, for we are making experiments.
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We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
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We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
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We need to stay together, to spread the truth like religion. It's a lonely, scary road, and we've got to walk it together.
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We need to stop kicking the can down the road and rethink our entire tax system toward long-term, comprehensive tax reform.
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We, who have already borne on the road to Paradise the lives of the best among us, want a difficult, erect, implacable Paradise; a Paradise where one can never rest and which has, beside the threshold of the gates, angels with swords.
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What is meant by ''reality''? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
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