Quotes 1561 till 1580 of 7322.
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Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
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Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.
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Governments do not have the answers - indeed, quite the reversal. A lot of times, they not only do not have the answers, but they themselves are the problem. If we are committed to helping our world's children, then we must begin to create solutions from the bottom up.
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Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.
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Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
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Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.
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Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.
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Great film roles, they always take you to another place. I'd love to do more of that, but I keep doing lots of voiceovers, some TV spots, and some film roles have come along, so I'm okay.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
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Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
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Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
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Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
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Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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