Quotes 3121 till 3140 of 4570.
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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.
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The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.
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The drafts from the regiments at Ticonderoga are a miserable set; indeed the men on board the fleet, in general, are not equal to half their number of good men.
Source: Letter to General Gates (21 September 1776), in Battle of Valcour on Lake Champlain, October 11th, 1776 by Peter Sailly Palmer(1876) p. 5 -
The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.
Source: Whats wrong with 40 Liverpool Road?, Daily Telegraph, 18 September 2003, p. 24. -
The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken.
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The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
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The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
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The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.
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The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.
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The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.
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The end of times has always been a fascination. But post 9/11, pretty much everybody will admit to having it on their minds more frequently than when they were a kid.
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power.
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The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.
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The era of 'The Jungle Book' was when the animators were at the top of their game and their sense of character was great.
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The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.
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The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.
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The essential element of successful strategy is that it derives its success from the differences between competitors with a consequent difference in their behavior.
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The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
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