Quotes 21 till 40 of 1038.
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For this reason the Bible is a book of eternal and effective power; because, as long as the world lasts, no one will say: I comprehend it in the whole and understand it in the particular. Rather we must modestly say it on the whole it is venerable, and in the particular practical.
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From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend on reading it.
Source: Life (9 geb. 1962), over Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge van S.J. Perelman -
Happiness, satisfaction, and success in life depend on making the right choices, the winning choices. There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.
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He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people's choices. If I feel good about my body, I don't go around making fun of other people's weight or appearance. We're hard on each other because we're using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
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It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says ''there is no wisdom without leisure.''
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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
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Life is what happens to you, while you're busy making other plans.
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Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.
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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
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No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
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Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.
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Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
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Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
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