Quotes 141 till 160 of 327.
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If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.
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If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
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If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.
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If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
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If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.
How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom (2010) 96 -
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.
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In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
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In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
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In New York, you couldn't wish for a nicer audience, or in L.A., Chicago, Boston. But when you get into secondary markets, they don't have a clue.
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In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.
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Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.
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Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement - they have only tried to be ''men'' and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.
Florence Nightingale
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Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
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Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
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