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In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.
Author:
Christopher Wren
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The government serves the people - not vice-versa.
Author:
Joe Wilson
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For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.
Author:
Charles Wilson
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I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.
Author:
William Wills
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It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.
Author:
Christine Whitman
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I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day.
Author:
Bradley Whitford
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
Author:
Orson Welles
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All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
Author:
Noah Webster
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In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
Author:
Ethel Waters
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The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
Author:
George Washington
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Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.
Author:
Dionne Warwick
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Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
Author:
Horace Walpole
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Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
Author:
Marquis Vauvenargues
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The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
Author:
Bill Vaughan
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Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
Author:
Peter Ustinov
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This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.
Author:
Lionel Trilling
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More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.
Author:
Robert Surtees
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Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.
Author:
Peter Straub
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
Author:
Casey Stengel
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What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married.
Author:
Gloria Steinem
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What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!
Author:
Sydney Smith
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Author:
Adam Smith
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
Author:
Edith Sitwell
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If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
Author:
Algernon Sidney
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When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.
Author:
Sargent Shriver
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My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.
Author:
Michelle Shocked
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
Author:
George Shaw
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I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.
Author:
Al Sharpton
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Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
Author:
William Shakespeare
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So the tough questions that have been asked of Sarah Palin thus far just have been about the fact that she doesn't know anything and isn't ready to be vice president. That's fair game and it has nothing to do with her gender.
Author:
Debbie Schultz
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For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
Author:
Erwin Schrodinger
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I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.
Author:
Arnold Schoenberg
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By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
Author:
Solomon Schechter
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The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
Author:
George Savile
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Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa.
Author:
Walter Salles
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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
Author:
Marquis Sade
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The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
Author:
Jean Rousseau
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A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
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Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Author:
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail.
Author:
Elliot Richardson
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
Author:
Quintilian
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Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
Author:
Quintilian
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
Author:
Marcus Quintilian
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When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
Author:
Dan Quayle
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I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.
Author:
Dan Quayle
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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
Author:
Dan Quayle
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No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
Author:
Marcel Proust
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A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa.
Author:
Stephen Potter
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Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
Author:
Alan Perlis
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
Author:
M. Peck
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By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it.
Author:
Cynthia Payne
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You know, my role as Vice Chairman is a lot less tiring than playing matches every three days.
Author:
Michel Patini
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Author:
Ouida
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Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.
Author:
John Olver
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The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.
Author:
Ted Olson
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And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.
Author:
Edward Olmos
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I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.
Author:
Edward Olmos
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The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'
Author:
Conan O'Brien
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We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished.
Author:
Joshua Norton
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Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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Ambition is not a vice of little people.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
Author:
Moliere
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It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
Author:
Henry Miller
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Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.
Author:
Marty Meehan
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Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
Author:
Philip Massinger
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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
Author:
Harriet Martineau
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Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President-and nothing was ever heard from either of them again.
Author:
Thomas Marshall
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Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.
Author:
Bernard Mandeville
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The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
Author:
Thomas Malthus
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By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
Author:
James Madison
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The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.
Author:
Adolf Loos
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Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves.
Author:
Patrick Leahy
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I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American people.
Author:
Frank Lautenberg
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A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally.
Author:
Christian Lange
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I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.
Author:
Hedy Lamarr
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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
Author:
Franz Kafka
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No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.
Author:
Juvenal
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
Author:
Ben Jonson
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Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills, is also cutting global warming gas emissions, is also cutting unemployment, is also cutting poverty, through retrofits it's also raising the value of homes, is also by cleaning the air, cutting asthma rates.
Author:
Van Jones
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A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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I struggled for 15 years in this business before Miami Vice came along.
Author:
Don Johnson
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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Author:
Eugene Ionesco
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The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.
Author:
Hubert Humphrey
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Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.
Author:
Hubert Humphrey
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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
Author:
David Hume
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.
Author:
Horace
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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
Author:
Rutherford Hayes
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I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.
Author:
Peter Hain
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I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.
Author:
Alexander Haig
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The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.
Author:
George Grosz
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Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.
Author:
Kathy Griffin
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Author:
Barry Goldwater
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Author:
Oliver Goldsmith
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Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
Author:
George Gissing
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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Author:
Ira Gershwin
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You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.
Author:
Harold Geneen
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Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.
Author:
Uri Geller
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
Author:
E. Forster
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It's better to have done because then you know what the player is going through and you understand the pressure, but then on the other hand I know a lot of people that were good players but not good coaches, and vice versa.
Author:
Guy Forget
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What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
Author:
Henry Fielding
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I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.
Author:
Geraldine Ferraro
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Vice president - it has such a nice ring to it!
Author:
Geraldine Ferraro
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People don't vote for vice president, they vote for president.
Author:
Susan Estrich
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The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
Author:
Arthur Erickson
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Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
Author:
Rahm Emanuel
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Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
Author:
George Eliot
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As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials.
Author:
John Edwards
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I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.
Author:
Aaron Eckhart
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
Author:
Will Durant
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
Author:
Finley Dunne
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In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.
Author:
Phil Donahue
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Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
Author:
Daniel Defoe
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No. 1, Halliburton. Certainly, if they've overcharged they should be whacked and whacked good, but the idea that the vice president somehow is involved in this, whether they got contracts because of him, that's nonsense.
Author:
Al D'Amato
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We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.
Author:
Tony Curtis
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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
Author:
Quentin Crisp
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Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
Author:
Victor Cousin
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Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.
Author:
Ann Coulter
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
Author:
James Cooper
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It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
Author:
James Cooper
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Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.
Author:
Anna Cooper
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Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
Author:
Cyril Connolly
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He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
Author:
Charles Colton
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He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
Author:
Charles Colton
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Author:
Winston Churchill
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It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.
Author:
Warren Christopher
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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
Author:
Lord Chesterfield
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I'd rather not be known as the Vice President's lesbian daughter.
Author:
Mary Cheney
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After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.
Author:
Mary Cheney
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The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.
Author:
Mary Cheney
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Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.
Author:
Edwin Chapin
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This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.
Author:
Edwin Chapin
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Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
Author:
Angela Carter
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Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.
Author:
Johnny Carson
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I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.
Author:
Herman Cain
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Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.
Author:
Robert Byrd
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The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
Author:
Joseph Butler
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Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?
Author:
Edgar Burroghs
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You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.
Author:
Ken Burns
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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My only aversion to vice, is the price.
Author:
Victor Buono
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I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore.
Author:
Pat Buchanan
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Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
Author:
Andre Breton
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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Author:
Henry Bolingbroke
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There is a ceaseless war against drunkenness and cruelty and vice.
Author:
Anthony Blunt
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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
Author:
William Blake
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It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa.
Author:
Dirk Benedict
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The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
Author:
E. Bell
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Author:
Henry Beecher
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Fast cars are my only vice.
Author:
Michael Bay
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Avarice is the vice of declining years.
Author:
George Bancroft
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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.
Author:
Honore Balzac
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Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Author:
Hosea Ballou
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Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.
Author:
Mikhail Bakunin
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
Author:
Abu Bakr
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It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.
Author:
Fredrik Bajer
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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
Author:
Mary Astell
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To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.
Author:
Mary Astell
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An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.
Author:
Desi Arnaz
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When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
Author:
Barbara Amiel
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The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
Author:
Fred Allen
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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
Author:
Lyman Abbott
