Quotes 5961 till 5980 of 8601.
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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.
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
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding -
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
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The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't get out and those outside don't want to get in.
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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.
Mother Courage and Her Children -
The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.
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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 essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
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