Quotes 3801 till 3820 of 5987.
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Poverty breeds wealth; and wealth in its turn breeds poverty. The earth, to form the mould, is taken out of the ditch; and whatever may be the height of the one will be the depth of the other.
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Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
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Power has only one duty -to secure the social welfare of the People.
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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
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Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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Preacher's kids usually go one way or the other - way wild, or they follow in their dad's footsteps.
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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
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Probably more than anybody else, I loved Nat 'King' Cole as a performer - not only his singing but his piano playing. Whenever he had a new record come out, I'd get it and try to learn how he was playing. And he was one of the nicest people I'd ever met.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears.
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Progress leads to confusion leads to progress and on and on without respite. Every one of the many major advances - created sooner or later, more often sooner, new problems. These confusions, never twice the same, are not to be deplored. Rather, those who participate experience them as a privilege.
Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988) -
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
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Promoting the interaction of orders remains one of the most difficult, but crucially important, challenges we face concerning our national market system.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
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Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.
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Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt.
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Protein bars, protein flapjacks, protein granola, protein ice cream and protein coconut water... To look at the health-food aisles, you'd think that protein was a substance no one could overeat. Even bread now comes in protein-enriched form.
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