Quotes 1261 till 1280 of 1600.
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The single best indicator of whether or not a child is going to be in poverty or not is whether or not they were raised by a two-parent household or a single parent household.
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The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
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The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.
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The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
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The telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
Interviewed J. Rentilly (sept. 2002) -
The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
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The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
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The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
The Art of Worldly Wisdom -
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
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The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous.
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The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
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The U.S. is supposed to be a nation of second chances, but for the 70 million Americans with a criminal record, we're not doing such a great job. Even among those whose crimes were nonviolent and committed long ago, too many still bear a scarlet letter.
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The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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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.
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The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.
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