Quotes 61 till 80 of 108.
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
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Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.
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Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
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Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
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Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
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The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
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The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
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The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
The least said about Lib Dems, the better, Daily Telegraph, 25 September 2003, p. 24. -
The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one
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The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.
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The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea.
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The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.
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The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty.
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The world has more winnable people than ever before… but it is possible to come out of a ripe field empty-handed.
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