Quotes 5961 till 5980 of 8624.
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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.
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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 enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.
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The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
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The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
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The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.
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The entire universe will eventually disintegrate but by then I hope to be in a safer place.
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The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
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The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different- to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
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The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
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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 act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
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The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life.
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The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.
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The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.
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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
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The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.
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The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.
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