Quotes 3621 till 3640 of 26406.
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Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
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Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver a sustained level of security and justice for citizens. Border security can never come at the expense of migrants' rights. Nor can it be used to legitimize inhumane treatment.
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Boredom comes simply from ignorance and lack of imagination.
Source: Anger in the Sky -
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
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Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
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Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
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Borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
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Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.
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Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
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Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.
Source: Storage and Stability Part II, Ch. VIII,Ultimate Uses of the Stored Unit -
Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense.
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Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?
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Both CNN and NPR prohibit political activity by all journalists, no matter their assignment.
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Both for Havana's beauty and decay, it's very hard to restrain yourself from staring everywhere you look.
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Both from the standpoint of stocks and bonds, an investor wants to go where the growth is.
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Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
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Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
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Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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