Quotes 41 till 60 of 1877.
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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
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I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
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I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but you've got to admire the workmanship.
Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra -
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
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It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.
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It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.
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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
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Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food and commonly better company.
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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
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Obey the principles without being bound by them.
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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
An Address on Abraham Lincoln before the Republican Club of New York City (1909) -
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
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Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
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