Quotes 261 till 280 of 313.
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This is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but a sure way of losing it.
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Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.
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Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
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To fear the worst oft cures the worse.
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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
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Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
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Values provide perspective in the best of times and worst.
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War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.
On War (1832) Ch. 1, Section 3, Paragraph 1 -
We all remember the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history. What is less well known is that BP is claiming a 9.9 billion tax deduction on the money they had to spend cleaning up their own mess and paying for damages they caused. That is absurd.
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We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
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We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression.
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We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens.
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We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - gunpowder and romantic love.
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We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
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We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.
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