Quotes 301 till 320 of 362.
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To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.
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Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called 'Legend' by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.
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Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.
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Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.
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We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on
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We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
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We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.
The Conduct of Inquiry -
We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.
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We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.
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We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers.
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We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
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We never know how high we are till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our stature's touch the skies.
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We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could have made a certain type of record and sold millions of units, as they are called.
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We, all of us, could do a much better job of evoking what someone has called the universal principle of human altruism: the urge in us all to help others who are in danger.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called.
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