Quotes 2801 till 2820 of 3899.
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The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.
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The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: ''he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.''
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The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
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The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.
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The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.
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The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.
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The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.
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The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
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The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
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The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
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The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.
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The first night you walk down to a comedy club, at least for me, I had my voice, and then I went on stage and I lost it.
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The first outbreak of America's 11-year skyjacking epidemic occurred in the summer of 1961, when four planes were seized in the nation's airspace. The last of these incidents, involving 16-year-old Cody Bearden and his father, Leon, is the one that finally forced the federal government to pay attention to the escalating crisis.
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The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.
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The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.
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The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
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The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim's check-books.
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The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing the piano. I eased up on the porch to listen to him.
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The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
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