Quotes 10481 till 10500 of 10692.
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.
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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...
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A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
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A lot of guys go into the NBA not being able to shoot the ball well, but then they become great shooters.
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A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
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A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
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A proverb is much matter decocted into few words.
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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
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Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.
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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
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Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
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America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.
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America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
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