Quotes 4801 till 4820 of 5767.
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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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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 be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
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To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
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To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.
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To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.
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To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.
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To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
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To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.
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To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fi
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To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated.
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To me the greatest problem with humanity is that they don't know anything of meditation.
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To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling - they call it slow-burn storytelling.
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To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.
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To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
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To say that because of someone's heritage or their ethnicity that they are unable to provide fair judgement is just wrong. It's just not how the judicial system works in our country and not how it ever can work.
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