Quotes 681 till 700 of 964.
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Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
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That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.
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The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set some limit on infinite error.
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The amazing thing about a football team is we can disagree and fight like brothers, but then we come back together. We are able to be open and honest about things that may offend us.
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The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
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The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.
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The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
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The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.
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The best under-the-radar rivalry is Dodgers-Giants. I had no idea how deep that one was until I moved to California... that one goes waaaaaaaaay back, and both sides absolutely detest each other. Fights in the stands, fights in the parking lot, the whole thing. It's every bit as bitter as Yankees-Red Sox without nearly the same hype.
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The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.
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The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
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The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.
In: Stapleton, Jim. Smashing Pumpkins (1996) -
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
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The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
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The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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The cows have ID numbers. And we should be able, throughout the investigation, which is ongoing as we speak, to be able to track that cow back to where it came from initially.
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The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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