Quotes 3121 till 3140 of 4101.
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The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.
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The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.
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The president has been more than willing to challenge the National Rifle Association, but that is like a Republican president standing up to labor unions - not a move that risks anything with his core supporters. Mr. Obama could show some real bravery by taking on Hollywood.
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The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.
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The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire!
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The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.
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The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.
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The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
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The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
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The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
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The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is incompatible with the principles that guide a free society.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.
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The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.'
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The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
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The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
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The question ''Who ought to be boss?'' is like as ''Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?'' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
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The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people's radar, and for good reason. It does something different than more accessible means of music playing, like MP3 players and downloads and whatnot. You get in front of these archaic contraptions that go 'round and 'round.
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The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
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