Quotes 61 till 80 of 191.
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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.
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If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.
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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
The First World War (1963) p. 165 -
In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
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In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.
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In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants.
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In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.
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Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement - they have only tried to be ''men'' and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.
Florence Nightingale
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and ends only with death.
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Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
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It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.
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It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.
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It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
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It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
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It is hard to have patience with people who say ''There is no death'' or ''Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
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It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didn't want to be oblivious to the obvious.
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