Quotes 9601 till 9620 of 25602.
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In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.
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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
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In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
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In a democracy there are only two types of power: there's organized people and organized money, and organized money only wins when people aren't organized.
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In a different era, I would have called myself a natural philosopher. All my life, I have enjoyed the reputation of being someone who disrupted prevailing ideas. Now that I'm in my 80th year, I can play on my age and provoke people even more.
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In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
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In a free society a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices.
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In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
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In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.
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In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
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In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don't listen, you're going to strike out. You're going to fail miserably. The people you work with have got to know you're engaged and you're listening.
― Brad Wenstrup
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In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.
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In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.
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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs.
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In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.
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