Quotes 4641 till 4660 of 6399.
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The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
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The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
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The more real the murder is, the less interested I am in seeing it. It's hard enough to watch the news.
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The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.
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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
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The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
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The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
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The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.
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The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
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The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.
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The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.
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The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.
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The most sobering thing is to have a number one record across the whole entire world in all languages.
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The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
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The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
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