- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most Quotes
The extremes people notice most.
This page collects quotes built around superlatives — including a direct critique of George W. Bush's domestic policy priorities, alongside genre-film commentary on luck and poor decision-making. For a look at priority and value elsewhere, see Important quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
The conventional, and painfully artificial, separation of the human realm from the natural other is bound to perish, albeit over a period of time, until we are obliged to learn how to cultivate our gardens under the most demanding conditions.
- Grass
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1828 we raised the duties, on an average, to nearly fifty per cent, when the debt was on the eve of being discharged, and thereby flooded the country with a revenue, when discharged, which could not be absorbed by the most lavish expenditures.
- Deserve
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and decisive response they received.
- Environment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people would accept that we are, to a certain extent, products of our environment.
- Sex
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I started playing more on the WTA tour, I actually won most of my Challengers on the clay, especially at the very beginning.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a safe bet most players would get nervous before a match. I do, too, but it's more excitement and more just wanting to get going, and I feel the same.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020