Quotes 41 till 60 of 72.
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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
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Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.
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Shows can come and go. They can be a hit and then in three years, gone. There's some comfort in having the stability of a job and having children. It's a double-edged sword.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
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Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
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The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.
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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
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The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
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The safest way to double your money is to fold over once and put it in your pocket.
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The same meaning changes with the words which express it. Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.
Pensees (1669) -
The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.
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There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.
The Eyes Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009 (2009) -
There's a cockeyed yellow poodle to the north of Conga Pooch;
There's a little hot cross bun that's turning green;
There's a double-jointed woman doing tricks in Chu-Chin-Chow,
And you're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.The Green Tie on the Little Yellow Dog line 37 -
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.
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This programme would only really make sense and work properly if it was also broadcast on France's international television channel TV5. So I ended up with a double production, on France 2 and TV5.
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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
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To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
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