Quotes 2321 till 2340 of 6532.
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I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity...
Source: Grunch of Giants (1983)― Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
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I sometimes think we all die at twenty-five and after that are nothing but walking corpses, with gramophones inside.
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I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
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I spent several years in a north Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
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I struggle immensely with celebrities of all kinds. I get clammy hands and turn a little purple.
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I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.
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I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
Source: And the Mountains Echoed -
I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.
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I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity... in important things, diversity... in all things, generosity.
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I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.
Source: Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996) -
I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
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