Quotes 1101 till 1120 of 25187.
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We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.
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We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
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We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.
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We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
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We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
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We need to have our conservative version of what health care looks like, and that will include a repeal of Obamacare.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
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We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
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What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide.
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What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.
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What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds.
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