Quotes 1421 till 1440 of 1905.
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The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.
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The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
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The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
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The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ''But''.
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The middle-aged stranger whom I met by chance upon the lower rocks at Mary's Neck, that salt-washed promontory of the New England coast, was at first taciturn but became voluble when a little conversation developed the fact that we were both from the Midland country.
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The misery of the middle-aged woman is a gray and hopeless thing, born of having nothing to live for, of disappointment and resentment at having been gypped by consumer society, and surviving merely to be the butt of its unthinking scorn.
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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.
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The most profilic period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.
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The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.
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The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.
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The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.
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The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
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The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
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The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
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The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
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The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
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The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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