Quotes 181 till 200 of 268.
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Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
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Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.
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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
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That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
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The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
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The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.
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The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
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The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.
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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved. The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1943) -
The essence of liberalism is negotiation, a cautious half measure, in the hope that the definitive dispute, the decisive bloody battle, can be transformed into a parliamentary debate and permit the decision to be suspended forever in an everlasting discussion.
Political Theology (1922) -
The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.
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The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the ''easy life of the gods'' would be a lifeless life.
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