Quotes 841 till 860 of 10591.
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A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
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A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
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A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.
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A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.
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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.
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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.
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A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of starting, usually after a fatherly pilot convinced the nervous teen to hand over his gun.
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A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
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A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
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A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
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A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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A thing that has not been begun cannot be finished.
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A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.
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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.
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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. T. S. Eliot, After Strange Gods (1934) There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
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