Quotes 1761 till 1780 of 2961.
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The best way to please one half of the world is not to mind, what the other half says.
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The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.
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The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
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The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.
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The black man continues on his way. He plods wearily no longer - he is striding freedom road with the knowledge that if he hasn't got the world in a jug, at least he has the stopper in his hand.
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The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.
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The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...
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The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
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The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.
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The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.
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The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off.
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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
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The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.
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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.
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The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but they are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought.
Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. II, SOURCES AND TRADITIONS, p. 26 -
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
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The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.
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