Quotes 201 till 220 of 432.
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In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
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In the minor leagues, previous to 2008, I took a lot of pitches. I prided myself on on-base percentage. I made sure that I made the pitcher work.
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In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.
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Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.
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It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.
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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
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It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.
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It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.
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It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.
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It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
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It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know, and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.
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It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.
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It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls.
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It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
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It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.
A Study in Scarlet (1887)
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