Quotes 1801 till 1820 of 2262.
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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.
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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.
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The wonder we often express at our neighbours keeping dull company, would lessen if we reflected that most people seek companions less to be talked to, than to talk.
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The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
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The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
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The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
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The World Championship gold was a surprise and took a lot of pressure off in terms of qualifying for Rio, but I still need more points, and winning in Manchester would be massive for me.
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The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation. But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred visions.
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There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies.
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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
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There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
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There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.
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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
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There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.
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There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.
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