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It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
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It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas... If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you... On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones.
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.
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It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.
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It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
Once around the sun (1951) -
It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
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It's all over, he said to Cooke. You've got to come clean. The notes show us the story is wrong. We know it. We can show you point by point how you concocted it.
Post Reporters Pulitzer Prize Is Withdrawn; Pulitzer Board Withdraws Post Reporters Prize (19 April 1981) -
It's been studied to the point where we know that the impact on humans would be from consuming the most infected parts of the cow; that is, the brain and the spinal cord.
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It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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It's great to be compared to a great player like Tracy McGrady, but I think I'm my own type of player. I'm 6'10'' and a bit bigger than he is as a player. I also think I'm a bit different and play a different position. He's more of a guard, and I can play all around through five.
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It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people involved have integrity, then you'll do it, even if it's only five minutes on screen.
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It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.
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It's not really like you have a thing like a supermodel anymore. It's more of a word than a real existence. I think, also, looking at it from a designer's point of view, at one point maybe they felt the stars took too much attention away from the clothes.
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It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.
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Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. If they reach the point, they either crush it, or lean all round, more on the false than on the true.
Pensees (1669)
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