Quotes 1781 till 1800 of 2255.
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To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
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To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.
Robert Baden-Powell
British Army officer, writer, author and founder of the Scout Movement (1857 - 1941) -
To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
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To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.
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To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, What would we have to do to come to believe it? For the pragmatist the question is, What would we do if did believe it?
The Conduct of Inquiry -
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
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To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never - I repeat - never under any conditions face the facts.
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To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as it is to live without being born.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
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To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.
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To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
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To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean - that's scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.
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To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.
Letters & Autobiographical Writings (1954) -
To the new 'Apprentice' candidates I would say to follow your gut instincts, be yourself and get ready to work hard for the next few months. Oh, and try to have some fun!
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To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
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