Quotes 481 till 500 of 516.
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Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
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Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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Why should it matter to us when wrestlers are found dead in their beds or seen limping around on two fake hips? Why should it matter to us that there's a list of modern wrestlers who died before the age of 50 - many of them famous - and that the list is more than 70 names long? Hey, there's always another wave of guys on the way. Always.
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Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best Ends by the best Means.
Inquiry into the best means of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue II, 5 -
With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
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Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.
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You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.
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You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.
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You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home.
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You're never more alive than when you're almost dead.
De last die ze droegen (1990) 78 -
You're not dead at 85. You're a long way from it. Go out and enjoy. You've earned it.
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You've got to be a misanthrope in this business, a real son of a bitch. I'm touchy. I've got raw nerve ends, and I'll jump. If I see a stuffed shirt, I want to punch it.
As quoted in Hit It If Its Big in TIME magazine (21 July 1961) -
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up, taken care of for their own ends, they are dead.
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Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.
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