Quotes 1981 till 2000 of 3662.
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Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.
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Patriotism in the female sex is the most disinterested of all virtues. Excluded from honors and from offices, we cannot attach ourselves to the State or Government from having held a place of eminence.... Yet all history and every age exhibit instances of patriotic virtue in the female sex; which considering our situation equals the most heroic of yours.
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Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
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Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.
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Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.
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Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
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Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
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Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings.
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Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.
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People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they never use.
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People have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
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People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.
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People in the U.K. share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself. They have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have, seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.
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People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.
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People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.
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People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
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People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
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