Quotes 121 till 140 of 851.
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At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Original:L'automne est un deuxième printemps où chaque feuille est une fleur.
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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it.
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Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.
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Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
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Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
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Books tap the wisdom of our species - the greatest minds, the best teachers - from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.
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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart.
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But there was no question in my mind that I was gonna still go for it. I was still going for the win. I wasn't skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that's probably what got me there.
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By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Can you imagine your second album — the difficult second album — it's about God? Everyone is tearing their hair out and Chris Blackwell says, It's okay. There's Bob Marley and Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, it's a tradition. We can get through it.
Source: About the album October (album) (1981) in a speech accepting induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (17 March 2005). -
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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CEOs who can hire properly, that's the most important part of the job. The CEO's job is really to hire the right team and execute the vision second.
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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
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