Quotes 1441 till 1460 of 1725.
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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
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To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.
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To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
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To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
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To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.
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To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I.".
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To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.
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To simplify complications is the first essential of success.
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To suggest that the global market-place of the twenty first century there will be no role for the state and the public sector is clearly nonsense.
Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. Four, Self-Interest and the Public Interest: T -
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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Too many people get married and lose themselves. You have to fiercely hold on to who you are, and you need to celebrate that in the other person because that's what made you fall in love in the first place.
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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
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Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
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Truth comes home to the mind so naturally that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.
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Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
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