Quotes 2121 till 2140 of 2265.
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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
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When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.
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When someone says it ain't the money, but its the principal of the thing, it's the money.
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, ''That is the real thing.''
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When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
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When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
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When the Soviet Union fell, optimistic scholars believed the world had shifted inexorably in the direction of free markets and liberal democracy. Instead, the West gradually embraced bigger government and weaker social bonds, creating a fragmented society in which the only thing we all belong to, as President Barack Obama puts it, is the state.
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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
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When work is going well, your home life struggles and vice versa. If my kids are OK - that is the most important thing. I strive for balance in my life, though.
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When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
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When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.
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When you go to a concert, part of being there is that you're all hearing the same thing. It's about being in a crowd. If you go to a gig and there are two people there, then it's not the same thing.
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When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.
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When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.
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When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.
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