Quotes 1661 till 1680 of 3120.
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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.
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One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
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One thing we're going to focus on is the middle class and the crushing prices and stagnant wages they're facing. What motivates me is looking at my 3-year-old son and thinking about what we're passing on to him and his future wife and their future kids.
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One thing young people have to always keep in mind when deciding what they want to do with their lives is, is it fun? Is it something that I'm interested in? Is it something I enjoy?
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One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
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Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.
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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family - but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
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Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
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Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.
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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
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Order is a great person's need and their true well being.
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Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
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Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
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Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish. It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for we are their children.
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Our authors and scholars are generally men of business, and make their literary pursuits subservient to their interests.
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