Quotes 18221 till 18240 of 26406.
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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
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The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
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The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
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The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched unfledged comrade.
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The frightful casualties appalled me. The so-called good fighting generals of the war appeared to me to be those who had a complete disregard for human life. There were of course exceptions and I suppose one was Plumer; I had only once seen him and I had never spoken to him.
Source: Regarding the generals of the First World War. 1 -
The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
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The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011 was an immense tragedy that sparked a global response. The international community came forward with aid to the victims and came together to address the broader concerns about nuclear security and safety.
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The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
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The fun part about doing voiceovers and all that stuff is that you're not yourself; you're some other looking thing and sounding thing and whatever else.
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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
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The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve.
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The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
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The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can be done electronically, how images can be manipulated and the really extraordinary creative possibilities. For me the essential basis of video is the movement - something that exists at the moment and changes in the next moment.
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The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ''Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought.'' The Greek said, ''All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.''
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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.
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The funny thing about me that most people never really understand is that, at heart, I'm really a jock.
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