Quotes 1941 till 1960 of 2262.
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Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
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Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing.
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Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.
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Walking around on the moon was significantly easier than we'd thought it would be. There weren't any balance problems, so you weren't tumbling over.
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War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
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War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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Was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a great poet. But he lived on.
Source: Dictionary of Quotations -
Washington's birthday is worthy of celebration - he is one of the greatest men in history. But Washington himself would likely have seen celebration of the office of the presidency itself as monarchic in nature.
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WCW wasn't what I thought it should be. I thought it could be better. I would make suggestions, but nobody would want to hear them. They think you want their job. Please. It would be easier doing their job because they're used to doing nothing.
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We all knew that asking another guitar player to step into Duane Allman's shoes would not really be fair to anybody who had a conscience.
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We all live in a free Poland, and there would be no free Poland without you, Twenty-five years ago, I did not stand on the same side together with you, but today I have no doubts that it was your vision of Poland which led us in the right direction.
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We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
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We are a compound of both here and hereafter; we shall be made responsible for the actions of both while here. Anything beyond this is beyond our power to prove, and would be of no real value if we could.
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We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
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We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty.
― Angelina Grimké
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop.
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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.
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