Quotes 2901 till 2920 of 4180.
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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.
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The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.
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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
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The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms.
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The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
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The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
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The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were supposed to be better or nearer to God than other men, their failings attracted more attention.
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The cliché that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined the ways in which imagination creates possibility; possibility that society denies.
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The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
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The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good.
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.
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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
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The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
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The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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