Quotes 901 till 920 of 1338.
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ''But''.
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The men are much alarmed by certain speculations about women; and well they may be, for when the horse and ass begin to think and argue, adieu to riding and driving.
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The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
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The mind as well as the body must be not only strong but well disciplined in order to act with promptness and vigor in new and untried situations. It is hard to turn men's minds from the old and deeply worn channels in which they have long been flowing.
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The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
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The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
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The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.
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The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.
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The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
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The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.
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The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
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The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
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The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
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The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.
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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
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The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
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The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
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