Quotes 3961 till 3980 of 5987.
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Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly as he thinks.
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Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
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Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
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Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
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Some directors have just one way of working; you either have to adhere to it or you don't.
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Some libertarians say, 'Well, if people work harder, they can make more money.' But, you know, my mother is a nurse and I am a venture capitalist. I think no matter how great a nurse she is, she wouldn't earn a one-thousandth of what I can make, if that.
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Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
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Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It's very exterior.
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Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor – unassisted.
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Some of the Presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great Presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.
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Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged by only one thing - the result.
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Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.
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Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.
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Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
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Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old.
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