Quotes 4721 till 4740 of 5767.
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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.
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Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden.
Source: Phaedrus -
Things are seldom what they seem.
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Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
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Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.
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Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
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Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.
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Things whispered here, and the trees muttered with the wind and perhaps with other things. Men knew the place was old, old as the world, and they never made peace with it.
Source: Arafels Saga (1983) The Dreamstone, Book One : The Gruagach, Ch. 1 : O -
Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.
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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.
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Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.
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This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.
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This book is written with the conviction that there are no 'good' or 'bad' people, no matter how offensive or eccentric to society they may seem... You and I didn't design people. God designed people. What I am trying to do is to discover why God included humans in Universe.
Source: Critical Path (1981)― Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
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This death's livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.
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This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
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This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.
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This is the essence of the problem. To Dan Rather and to a lot of other powerful members of the chattering class, that which is right of center is conservative. That which is left of center is middle of the road. No wonder they can't recognize their own bias.
Source: Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News
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