Quotes 861 till 880 of 1358.
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The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
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The big 3 networks don't like the fact that there's a Rush Limbaugh out there, they don't like the fact that there's a Fox News, they don't like the fact that there's a Matt Drudge. They liked it when it was nice, when it was just the three of them. Well, it ain't that way anymore.
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The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
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The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.
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The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
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The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
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The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
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The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
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The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.
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The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.
Angelina Grimke
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined...
Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
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