Quotes 521 till 540 of 616.
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There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.
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They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.
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They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.
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They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.
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This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.
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This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.
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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought
Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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Tiger, tiger burning bright,
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye,
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Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.
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To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.
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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 rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
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To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.Auguries of Innocence -
To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.
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Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
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Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of regulating.
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Unfortunately, I have been a little disappointed that we have issues out there like traditional marriage, abortion, school education, and we have so much silence from the black community, from black preachers, because they understand first hand the impact of all that.
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Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.
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