Quotes 741 till 760 of 1785.
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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.
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In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.
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In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.
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In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.
Source: Infinity plus interview (2001) Sunsets of High Renown -
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
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In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.
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In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
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In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.
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In this wild world the fondest and the best
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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
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In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.
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In youth one marvels that man remains at so low a stage of civilisation, in later life one marvels that he has got so far.
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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
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Intuition is reason in a hurry.
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Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
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It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.
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