Quotes 261 till 280 of 1789.
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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
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Courtesy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
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Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.
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Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
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Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
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Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
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Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.
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Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
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Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
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Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
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Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder? No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.
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Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.
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Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.
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Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
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Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
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