Quotes 4241 till 4260 of 4570.
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When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
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When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change
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When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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When people wear shoes that don't fit them, it says something about their soul. Generally, I think it means they are good people.
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When people will not weed their mind, they are apt to be overrun with nettles.
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When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
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When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.
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When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
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When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.
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When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
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When they are employed wisely, derivatives make the world simpler because they give their buyers an ability to manage and transfer risk.
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When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
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When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.
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When thou standest still from thinking and willing of self, the eternal hearing, seeing, and speaking will be revealed to thee, and so God heareth and seeth through thee. Thine own hearing, willing, and seeing hindereth thee, that thou dost not see nor hear God.
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When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and to defend this country's interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety.
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When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.
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