Quotes 201 till 220 of 1038.
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Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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Earisome as it may seem, women must realize that, in making a commitment to a man, they have merged in his unconscious with his mother and have therefore inherited the ambivalence of that relationship.
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Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book - I call that vicious!
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Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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Even leaving aside government policy, whole industries are already making expensive changes around the perceived need to 'go green.' Al Gore and countless other prophets of global catastrophe are making megamillions pushing these expensive solutions. Schoolchildren around the globe are being frightened by tales of impending calamity.
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Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company.
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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
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Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan Moore was first and foremost in my mind.
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Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.
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Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.
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Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.
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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
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Every book is like starting over again. I've written books every way possible - from using tight outlines to writing from the seat of my pants. Both ways work.
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Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
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Every burned book enlightens the world.
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Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
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