Quotes 3401 till 3420 of 6249.
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On this International Day, let us promise to make peace not just a priority, but a passion. Let us pledge to do more, wherever we are in whatever way we can, to make every day a day of peace.
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On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
Source: The Life and Words of Adlai Stevenson (1965) door Robert L. Polley, p. 61 -
Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Once I get on a puzzle, I can't get off.
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Once I'm satisfied and I've made enough money where I can afford to live in Malibu, because it's very expensive, I will definitely be back there.
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Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
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Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.
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Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
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Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.
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Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.
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Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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Once you get an offer from Steven Soderbergh, you just do anything you can to make it fit.
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Once you get into the habit of work, you can be more productive in the things you want to do.
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Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream - if it is intended that you stay there.
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Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.
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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
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Once you've got some words looking back at you, you can take two or three or throw them away and look for others.
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