Quotes 6261 till 6280 of 8624.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.
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The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 1014 neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness.
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The New Frontier I speak of is not a set of promises - it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intent to ask of them.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.
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The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
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The North Korean landscape is strikingly beautiful in places. It could be said to resemble America's Pacific Northwest - but substantially drained of color.
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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.
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The notion that we won the war against Iraq is like saying we won a war against Arizona. I mean, the fact of the matter is it's not that big of a country. Nobody, I don't think, had any notion that we would do anything but win it.
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The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.
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The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.
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The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
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The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
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The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
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The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.
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The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
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