Quotes 821 till 840 of 848.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
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Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.
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Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.
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Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
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Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
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You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.
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You can be a great father if you are willing to let God use you as an instrument.
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You can't end negotiations unless you begin them. And you can't begin them if you continually negotiate about the terms to begin negotiations.
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You grow up a certain way, and you make decisions within your family, but then you go to college, and the decisions become harder. You are away from home, from the influence of your parents, dealing with peer pressure. There's a lot of stuff that goes on in college.
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You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.
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You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'
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You know, I think, I think the Palestinians are trying to get away without negotiating. They're trying to get a state to continue the conflict with Israel rather than to end it. They're trying to basically detour around peace negotiations by going to the U.N. and have the automatic majority in the U.N. General Assembly give them, give them a state.
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You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
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You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.
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You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.
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You've got a league with a couple thousand players or so depending on the time of year. Then you have 10 or more very high profile stories that are terrible stories and things that have happened.
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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
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All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.
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