Quotes 201 till 220 of 333.
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Quite a lot of British women stop working when they have children, and that is rarely the case in Denmark. We have a very flat, structured way of approaching everything. Nobody's the boss. In a sense, we're all equal.
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Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.
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She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the ''woman of wax'' whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.
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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
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So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.
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So, when the special effects are at the service of the story and draw you into it, that is really the magic.
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Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.
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Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.
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Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
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Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering
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Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Sometimes the buzz of reading about others eating comes from the voyeuristic thrill of seeing how the other half lives: the gold leaf and truffles or - in the case of Trimalchio's feast in Petronius' 'Satyricon' - the dormice and honey.
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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.
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