Quotes 321 till 340 of 10692.
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ''What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.''
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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
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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 sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
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I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.
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I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.
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I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
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I'm not an outstanding personality, and I'm certainly no beauty. Acting ability is all I've got to trade on.
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I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.
Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 41 -
If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
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If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
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If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
Original:Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer."
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If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
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If men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.
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If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.
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