Quotes 641 till 660 of 1861.
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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.
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Investors are impatient and they are also desperate for the 'next big thing,' and they are not paying attention to the fact that the 'next big thing' can be an economic crisis that they have created by being very irresponsible with their power.
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Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
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Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.
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It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
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It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.
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It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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It is a dangerous thing to accept gifts: for two days after come request.
Source: Pastime papers -
It is a deplorable thing to see all men deliberating on means alone, and not on the end.
Source: Pensees (1669) -
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put on the troubled seas of thought.
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It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
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It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
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It is a good thing for a physician to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. The first makes him appear to know more than he does, and the second gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf.
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
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It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
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It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
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