Quotes 241 till 260 of 332.
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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.
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The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.
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The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
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The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.
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The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
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The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song.
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The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
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The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.
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The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.
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The simple act of playing positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.
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The simple answer is I'd just be a guy trying to feed my family, like everybody else. The complicated answer is, I think I'd be in some sort of military or government world of some sort.
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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
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