Quotes 261 till 280 of 406.
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Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?
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Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system's separate parts or any subassembly of the system's parts. There is nothing in the chemistry of a toenail that predicts the existence of a human being.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet.
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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word ''satiety.''
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The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word 'No.'
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The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
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The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
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The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.
Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays -
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
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The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word ''Love.'' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
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The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
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The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
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