Quotes 121 till 140 of 271.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
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It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of an abundance or surplus arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market.
Storage and Stability Part I, Ch. II, Government and Surplus Stocks, p. -
It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.
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It looks like you're going to have to put up with us for another four years.
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It makes no difference whom you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.
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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 was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.
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It's very difficult for designers today. How can someone produce so many shows? Now the minimum is four a year.
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James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.
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Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.
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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason - you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.
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Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
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Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
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Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. It's not glam.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.
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Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.
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Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
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