Quotes 681 till 700 of 700.
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You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
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A proverb is much matter decocted into few words.
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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
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Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
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All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.
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As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.
Source: Radicals in Robes (2009 edition), Basic Books -
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
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It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.
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It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.
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Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter.
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The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successor may be, no matter how wicked or stupid.
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With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
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