Quotes 1681 till 1700 of 25274.
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A one-hundred-thousand-word novel might take a year or several years, and then you just come to 'The End' one day. But it takes hundreds of days to get to 'The End.' As a writer, you have to put in those hundreds of days.
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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
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A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!
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A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. Each of the chemical elements is a pattern integrity. Each individual is a pattern integrity. The pattern integrity of the human individual is evolutionary and not static.
Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975) Pattern Integrity 505.201― Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
A peace above all earhtly dignities: A still and quiet conscience.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
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A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but under narrower conditions, it may easily come about that the whole people will fall asleep.
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A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
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A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.
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A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
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A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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A person with belief never grovels before anyone, whining and whimpering that it's all too much, that he lacks support, that he is being treated unfairly. Instead, such a person tackes problems head on and then affirms, 'As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
Source: Wings of Fire
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