Quotes 3581 till 3600 of 4355.
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They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors.
Cosmos (1980) -
They are evil people, the press, the media, they are bad people, and nobody, nobody lies like they do.
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They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
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They attack the one man with their hate and their shower of weapons. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence
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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?
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They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
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They certainly did. They tried to make her look like a "nut case" and they succeeded to some extent.
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They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
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They say that a kingdom is like a pyramid: the king on top and the people below. But in this country, it's upside down.
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They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God.
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They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it.
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They say you don't want to meet your heroes, but those two guys, you do want to meet them, because they do not disappoint. Walken has this amazing sense of humor, and Pacino is like just a sweetheart of a guy.
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They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.
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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Notes on the Next War (1935) -
Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.
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Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.
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Things between us were dissolving like an ice cub in a glass: the smaller it got, the faster it disappeared.
A Gate at the Stairs (2009) 204 -
Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
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Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
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