Quotes 181 till 200 of 499.
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If the nature of a thing is such that it is reasonably certain to place life and limb in peril when negligently made, it is then a thing of danger. Its nature gives warning of the consequences to be expected. If to the element of danger there is added knowledge that the thing will be used by persons other than the purchaser, and used without new tests, then, irrespective of contract, the manufacturer of this thing of danger is under a duty to make it carefully.
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If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
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If you don't drink, smoke, or drive a car, you're a tax evader.
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If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression.
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If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.
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If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
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If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.
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If you're in a car crash, you're mostly involved in trying to not go off the bridge, and later on you say, 'Oh my God!'
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In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.
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In Copenhagen, we all ride bicycles everywhere, partly because it is impossible to park a car, but also because you can cross the city in 20 minutes on a bike.
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In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.
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In high school, a teacher's friend in the police department asked me to go into a bar and flash a fake ID saying I was 21 even though I wasn't. They were assuming the bar wasn't carding people. Anyway, she forgot to ask for it back. I used it all freshman year in college.
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In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.'
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In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.
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In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.
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In refusing benefits caution must be used lest we seem to despise or to refuse them for fear of having to repay them in kind.
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In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it.
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In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.
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In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.
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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
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