Quotes 4921 till 4940 of 6696.
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The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
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The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
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The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.
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The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.
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The people know the salt of the sea
and the strength of the winds
lashing the corners of the earth.
The people take the earth
as a tomb of rest and a cradle of hope.
Who else speaks for the Family of Man?The People, Yes (1936) -
The people will live on.
The learning and blundering people will live on.
They will be tricked and sold and again sold.
And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.The People, Yes (1936) -
The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.
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The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Once Around the Sun (1951) -
The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart.
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The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
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The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.
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The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ''How is the president?''
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The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
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The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
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The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
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The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself!
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