Quotes 481 till 500 of 1090.
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Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
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Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network. They have more companies they can get money from.
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Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.
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Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.
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Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
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Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
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Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.
A Distant Mirror -
Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.
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Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.
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Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.
A Distant Mirror -
Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
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Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.
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Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them - as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
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Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages.
Vamps and Tramps (1994) -
My dad had an aunt at the turn of the century who died from diabetes, but she was the closest affected relative in my family.
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