Quotes 141 till 160 of 1905.
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A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
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A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
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A typical leader has - a natural tendency is to be defensive in the face of a crisis. The first reaction is to blame someone - or something - else. Often, the blame is aimed at something abstract or non-controllable, which often has nothing to do with the crisis but is adjacent to whatever is going on, so it's an easy target.
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A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.
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A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
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A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
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A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.
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A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.
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About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it's so beautiful.
Out on a Limb. Details Magazine. October 1996 -
Accept good advice gracefully—as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.
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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
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According to Ted Watt's 'The First Labor Day Parade,' the September date was chosen because it coincided with a Knights of Labor conference in New York, thus guaranteeing a sizable turnout for the festivities.
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Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
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Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.
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Actually, there is only one ''first question'' of government, and it is ''How should we live?'' or ''What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?''
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After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.
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After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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