Quotes 501 till 520 of 774.
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The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.
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The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
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The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.
Source: Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. VIII, Ultimate Uses of the Stored Uni -
The First Lady is such a fascinating office to hold. You're not elected, but it's very much official. You can see the latitude of power of that office.
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The First Law of Ecology: Everything Is Connected to Everything Else.... The Second Law of Ecology: Everything Must Go Somewhere.... The Third Law of Ecology: Nature Knows Best.... The Fourth Law of Ecology: There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch.
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The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
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The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room.
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The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
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The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.
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The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the ''easy life of the gods'' would be a lifeless life.
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The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
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The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
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The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.
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The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
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The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.
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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.
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The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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