Quotes 24781 till 24800 of 25152.
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Ambition: An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
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An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
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Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
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And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool - motley's the only wear.
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And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.
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As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
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As contraband, fugitive slaves could be collected and used by a Union army just as any other property could be collected and used, and nobody was in any way committed on any side of the slavery issue itself.
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As I look out there and see the culture of baseball, a lot of blacks and Latins, it's given me a lot of joy to know that Jackie started that. If Jackie hadn't come in '47, me and Ron Santo wouldn't have played in Double-A and all those years in the big leagues.
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As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
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As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.
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Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
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