Quotes 4121 till 4140 of 6249.
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The devil can site scripture for his own purpose! An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek.
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The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting. Here, you can see everybody wants his break.
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The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.
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The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?
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The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
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The distance between me and my readers is the Internet. I can communicate with them and respond to every email I get or every mention on Twitter.
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The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy?
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The Duke can get his rent
and we can get our ticket
twa pund emigrant
on a C.P.R. packet.Odes Gin the Goodwife Stint, I:14 -
The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street.
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The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.
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The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
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The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
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The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.
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The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.
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The essence of liberalism is negotiation, a cautious half measure, in the hope that the definitive dispute, the decisive bloody battle, can be transformed into a parliamentary debate and permit the decision to be suspended forever in an everlasting discussion.
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The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return
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The existence of good bad literature - the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously - is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.
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The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
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