Quotes 4361 till 4380 of 6278.
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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency, the belief that the here and now is all there is.
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The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.
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The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
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The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
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The fans know that I have been giving it my all and that we had the good judgment to when to say when.
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The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
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The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
Source: The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
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The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: ''he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.''
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The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.
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The feeling of gratitude has all the ardor of a passion in noble hearts.
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The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian
Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding -
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.
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The first 'Star Wars' movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America. But internationally, it was also a big deal.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
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The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
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The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security and Medicare surplus, and each year worse than the year before.
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The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.
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