Quotes 3101 till 3120 of 4570.
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The course that will restore to the workmen a father's duties and responsibilities, between which and themselves the state has now stepped, is for them to reject all forced contributions from others, and to do their own work through their own voluntary combinations.
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The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.
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The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.
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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
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The Cyrillic and Greek scripts in particular have an alien beauty in their unfamiliar letterforms. Five weights of stroke thickness create subtle variations in light and dark that reflect the emerging and fading of the stars.
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The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
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The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
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The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.
Source: Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ (1917) -
The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy.
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.
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The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project.
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The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
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The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
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The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek.
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The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life.
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The difference between rich and poor is that the poor do everything with their own hands and the rich hire hands to do things.
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The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.
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The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
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