- 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
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my work is done when everyone else is asleep.
- Musicals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most musicals are real crowd pleasers.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
In most audience-participation shows, the participant is so clearly not a part of what's going on that it's the fish-out-of-water aspect that makes it funny.
- Hide
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
- Finding
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
- If I Could
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- Nov 07, 2020
So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020