Quotes 3621 till 3640 of 4180.
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To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.
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Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap.
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Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes
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Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.
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Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
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Too many children are being parked in substandard day care with workers who make little more than a parking attendant.
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Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
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Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
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Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.
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Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
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Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.
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Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store.
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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
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Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
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Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.
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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.
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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
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