They Often Quotes
146 quotes by 141 authors
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Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
— Julian Assange
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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
— Russell Baker
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When actresses jump on the anti-Iraq bandwagon, they often combine down-home momism with an ignorance of Islamist intent which is truly awesome.
— Julie Burchill
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Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men are so fond…
— Anna Sewell
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When the lives of the unborn are snuffed out, they often feel pain, pain that is long and agonizing.
— Ronald Reagan
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People who describe culture and values and how people behave - I've heard people refer to it as 'the soft stuff'-they often underestimate its importance.…
— Carly Fiorina
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I have come to understand that the Lord's richest blessings are spiritual, and they often have to do with family, friends, and the gospel. He…
— Carl B. Pratt
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In a sense Shapley's telling me that space was transparent, which I shouldn't have believed, illustrates a fundamental problem in science, believing what people tell…
— Jesse L. Greenstein
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Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen
— Compton Mackenzie
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Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated…
— Francis Maitland Balfour
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Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
— Denis Waitley
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Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they…
— Erica Jong
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Hollywood parties not only confuse me, but they often disillusion me. The disillusion comes when I meet a movie star I’ve been admiring since childhood.…
— Marilyn Monroe
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Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to…
— Douglas Adams
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The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that…
— Robert Silverberg
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Our current political system ensures not that the worst will get on top - though they often do - but that the best will never…
— Paul Jacob
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People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the…
— Brian Friel
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Most people define learning too narrowly as mere 'problem-solving', so they focus on identifying and correcting errors in the external environment. Solving problems is important.…
— Chris Argyris
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Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.
— Stephen King
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Habits are powerful, but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed. They often occur without our permission, but can be…
— Charles Duhigg
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