Quotes 381 till 400 of 2075.
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.
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Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
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Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) -
Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.
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Every clarification breeds new questions.
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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China (1897 - 2003) -
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
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Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint
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Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.
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Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.
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Every country has the government it deserves.
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Every country I've had different hit records, so we have to change the set to fit the country.
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Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.
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Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There is no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
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Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
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