Quotes 441 till 460 of 755.
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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
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People are easily intimidated when they decorate their home. They think it has to be one way. But there's no one way. It's your way, your style. At the end of the day, you have to live there. It's your cocoon, your nest. You have to be happy in it.
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People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.
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People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
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Periodically, at the end of a conversation, someone will ask me, 'Is there something I can do for you?' I used to answer with 'Do something that is helpful to something or someone in my world.'
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
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Physically I'm tired at the end of the day and quite glad to be reading in bed by midnight.
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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.
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Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
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Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
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Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.
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Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
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President Abbas, you've dedicated your life to advancing the Palestinian cause. Must this conflict continue for generations, or will we enable our children and our grandchildren to speak in years ahead of how we found a way to end it? That's what we should aim for, and that's what I believe we can achieve.
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Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
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Products are a must - full stop. I'm sorry to say it, but that bob won't look so sleek on its own - you need a little help. It doesn't have to be the high-end stuff that they sell in the salon. Products you find in the supermarket are just as good, and sometimes better.
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