- Must
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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
- Normal
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- Nov 07, 2020
However, further research has shown that it is the normal condition for humans and for most other mammals. It seems pretty clear why this is the case for most mammals and for most human beings.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.
- Ethics
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need a tougher enforcement program and, most importantly, we need to fix the badly broken ethics system.
- Disproportionate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.
- Same
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit by $16 billion.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.
- Nov 07, 2020
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
- Horror
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most horror films fail to scare me.
- Commercially
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first cellular systems didn't become commercially available until 1983. Most of the phones before then were in fact car phones.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus that animated the designs most emblematic of the Modern Movement.
- Building
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- Nov 07, 2020