Quotes 761 till 780 of 945.
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This country needs to get a backbone and stand up for its economic interest.
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This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.
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This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
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To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.
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To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.
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To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.
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Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.
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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
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