Quotes 1161 till 1180 of 1835.
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The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.
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The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.
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The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.
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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.
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The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ''eternity''; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
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The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.
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The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.
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The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
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The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars... and then on the surface.
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The biggest difference between ancient Rome and the USA is that in Rome the common man was treated like a dog. In America he sets the tone. This is the first country where the common man could stand erect.
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The black man continues on his way. He plods wearily no longer - he is striding freedom road with the knowledge that if he hasn't got the world in a jug, at least he has the stopper in his hand.
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The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I’ve read so often that I’ve internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.
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The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.
Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays -
The changes in the chief and the assistant chief surgeon were most noticeable. At first they felt that they were just fulfilling their duty to the injured worker but were very dubious about the result. But then, full of confidence they really began doing their best.
A Battle For Life -
The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.
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The Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) 101
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