Quotes 841 till 860 of 1030.
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There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.
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These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
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Theses officers were good friends, so it must have been a terrible argument, because the one who played chess with my father was so angry that he walked over to the dentist's house and got the dentist out of bed and shot him.
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They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
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Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends
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This book fills a much-needed gap.
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This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
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This book is written with the conviction that there are no 'good' or 'bad' people, no matter how offensive or eccentric to society they may seem... You and I didn't design people. God designed people. What I am trying to do is to discover why God included humans in Universe.
Source: Critical Path (1981)― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn't want them to lose friends. He is his family's hero.
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This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English.
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This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
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This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
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Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
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Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old,
And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.Source: Bedouin Song
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