Quotes 41 till 60 of 1813.
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Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide.
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Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
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I can think of a lot of women clients of mine who are well into their 50s or 60s who are still quintessentially very elegant.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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I think well-read people - the world is open to them.
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
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If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
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If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
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If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
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Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who can not, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.
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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
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My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read.
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No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.
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Prostitution, when unmotivated by economic need, might well be defined as a species of psychological addiction, built on self-hatred through repetitions of the act of sale by which a whore is defined.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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