Quotes 121 till 140 of 140.
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To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
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To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
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War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence.
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Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.
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We are born in the world because we have to learn something through whatever we're born into. Although it might be awful. That's why it's an illusion to think that we really run our lives. We don't.
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We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
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Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.
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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.
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What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise - although the philosophers generally call it ''recognition''!
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What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity, intellect and resources - to do something about them.
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When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours.
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When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.
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When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.
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While husbands and lovers in the stories [of the 14th century] are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous, lecherous, shameless, although not necessarily all of these at once.
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Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.
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You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.
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Your basic physical makeup does influence the parts you're offered. If you're big, they cast you either dumb or tough, although there are exceptions. Clint Eastwood and James Arness carved out niches for themselves in Westerns. I just hope I won't be faced with doing 'Li'l Abner' in dinner theater for the rest of my career.
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Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
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Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
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