Quotes 3121 till 3140 of 4601.
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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.
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The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.
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The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.
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The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.
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The fact of the matter is I'm 21 now. I stay home. I feed my dogs. I don't really go out. I work.
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The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.
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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
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The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading.
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The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
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The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't get out and those outside don't want to get in.
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The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.
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The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.
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The first 'Star Wars' movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America. But internationally, it was also a big deal.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.
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The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
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The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme.
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The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
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