Quotes 16741 till 16760 of 25274.
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The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
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The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
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The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
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The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself.
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The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.
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The average American returning from a trip abroad likely - and understandably - assumes the contents of his or her electronic device does not come close to meeting the threshold of 'criminal' activity, such as would give a government agent the right to seize and peruse their iPad just because they are returning from a vacation.
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The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
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The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.
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The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
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The average small-business owner uses 18 apps to run their business every day, and if those applications don't allow data to flow seamlessly and they don't integrate, it's going to become a point of friction. It's going to prevent the small business from being successful.
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The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.
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The band has always stayed close to its fans and not sold out. That's a very rare thing. I can see how rare that is having been outside of the band for eight years. Maiden has integrity. I think people appreciate that.
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The bandage will remain on the eyes of Justice as long as the Capitalist has the cut, shuffle, and deal.
Source: Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, page 146. -
The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]
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The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation.
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The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
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The Barefoot College is supposed to be a sparking off process. People are adopting it and owning it, which is really the story behind the college.
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The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ''Thus far and no farther.''
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The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.
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