Quotes 441 till 460 of 748.
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People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
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People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.
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People will begin to explore all the sidestreets of sexual experience, but they will do it intellectually. . . . Sex won't take place in the bed, necessarily--it'll take place in the head!
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Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.
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Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve
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Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.
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Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
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Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
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Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
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Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
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Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.
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Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
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Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.
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Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.
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Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.
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Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments.
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Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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Relationships do not happen in abstraction. They need a place; they need a centre, even a home.
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