Quotes 301 till 320 of 406.
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The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
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The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
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The rules and principles of case law have never been treated as final truths but as working hypotheses, continually retested in those great laboratories of the law, the courts of justice. Every new case is an experiment, and if the accepted rule which seems applicable yields a result which is felt to be unjust, the rule is reconsidered.
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The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
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The Tea Party is almost solely grassroots-based; business interests have almost no grassroots organization. The Republican Party has for too long been run on behalf of business interests who favor candidates the grassroots hate; the minute that those candidates begin to flag, only loyal Tea Partiers stand behind them.
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The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.
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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
Minority Report: H.L. Mencken’s Notebooks (1956) -
The US has broken the second rule of war. That is, don't go fighting with your land army on the mainland of Asia. Rule One is don't march on Moscow. I developed these two rules myself.
In the House of Lords on American policy in Vietnam, 1962. -
The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.
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The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another
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The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.
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There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
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There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes.
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There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win, because it works.
Interview ABC World News (7 June 2010) -
There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
All rule-based famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 16)
