Quotes 101 till 120 of 237.
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
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It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.
Principles of Political Economy (1836) II, I, IX -
It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
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It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
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It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite a few changes. It's not really a hard thing for me to do.
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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ''This was their finest hour.''
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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
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Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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Many movie stars or American Idol contestants sort of fall into theater... and say, 'Oh, yeah, I would love to do theater.' And then they get here and say, 'Oh, wait a minute, this actually is a craft!' It's not just show up one day and do it. It's show up eight times a week, twice on Wednesdays and twice on Saturdays.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
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Mitch Daniels in Indiana was the best governor in America for eight years. I've gone to Indianapolis to study with him.
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My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.
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