Quotes 101 till 120 of 1131.
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Accept good advice gracefully—as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.
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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
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Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.
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Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being - and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth.
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994) -
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
We cannot live without our lives -
Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place.
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Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
On War (1832) -
All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that, but I hadn't spent much energy drawing buildings. So I thought, maybe I could, and then I became an architect.
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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Papa Hemingway (1966) Pt. 2, Ch. 7 -
All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.
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All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
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All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are ''up to a point.''
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All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
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All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
On Poetry -
Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.
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