Quotes 1241 till 1260 of 1813.
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The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
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The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.
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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
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The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark - without charging anyone with a crime.
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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.
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The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
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The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.
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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''.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
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 minute you read something you can't understand, you can almost be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer.
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The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.
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The more books we read, the sooner we perceive that the true function of the writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.
Source: The Unquiet Grave (1944) -
The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.
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The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
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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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