Quotes 801 till 820 of 1861.
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Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike.
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Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it's really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to go back to.
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Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.
American Pastoral (1997) -
Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'.
White Noise (2015) 126 -
Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.
As quoted in "Bob Marley: Musician" (Infobase Publishing, 2009) by Sherry Paprocki and Sean Dolan, p. 75 -
Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Animal Dreams -
Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.
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Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.
A Pale View of Hills (1982) -
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die earlier.
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Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
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Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
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Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
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Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.
Speech at the Computer History Museum, as quoted in InfoWorld magazine (October 2001) -
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
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Mistakes, scandals, and failures no longer signal catastrophe. The crucial thing is that they be made credible, and that the public be made aware of the efforts being expended in that direction. The ''marketing'' immunity of governments is similar to that of the major brands of washing powder.
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Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.
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Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
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