Quotes 161 till 180 of 1186.
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Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before.
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Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.
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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
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Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
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Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.
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Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It's an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth-century thought.
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Could man be drunk for ever
With liquor, love, or fights,
Lief should I rouse at mornings
And lief lie down of nights.
But men at whiles are sober
And think by fits and starts,
And if they think, they fasten
Their hands upon their hearts.Source: Last Poems (1922) No. 10, st. 2 -
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
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Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.
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Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.
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Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
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Did you ever spell a word so bad that your spell check has absolutely no clue what you're trying to spell? What do you end up getting, you end up getting, like, a question mark. You got a million dollars of technology just looking back at you like, 'You got me, buddy. Which is pretty amazing because I have all the words.'
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
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Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.
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Do I ever think Gossip will be really massive in America? No, I don't think it'll happen - and that's fine. It's kind of nice because I get to experience everything at once. I get to come home and it not be weird, like in Paris or something. It is nice to be completely anonymous.
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Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
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