Quotes 861 till 880 of 3746.
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Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone, you don't.
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.
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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
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Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
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Government is really successful when it's willing to make big, bold objectives, like, 'We're going to get to the moon.' But without leaders with big ideas, we get stuck.
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Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate.
A Distant Mirror -
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
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Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Grief was an actual weight, he thought. It felt like a physical burden. You carried it with you all day, unsheddable. Your shoulders, by nightfall, felt dragged down.
This is My Daughter p.320 -
Grief, when it comes, is nothing like we expect it to be.
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Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
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Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
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Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
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Growing up in Minnesota, I had a lot of freedom to run around, and we had go-carts and four-wheelers and all that stuff. I like that adrenalin-rush stuff. I did a little bit of dance, but mostly sports.
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