Quotes 81 till 100 of 106.
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The word ''civilization'' to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.
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There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.
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There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
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This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English.
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This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins.
Wings of Fire -
This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away.
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Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
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To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.
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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
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We CREATORS are builders. We are dedicated to the idea of building a beautiful world so different and so superior to the present one that we CREATORS of this generation will go down in history as the revolutionaries who ushered in the Golden Age of Mankind.
White Mans Bible White Mans Bible (1983) -
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
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We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.
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What are we hoping to get out of it, what's it all in aid of - is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?
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What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.
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What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done?
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Where children are, there is the golden age.
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With rue my heart is laden
For golden friends I had,
For many a rose-lipt maiden
And many a lightfoot lad.
By brooks too broad for leaping
The lightfoot boys are laid;
The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
In fields where roses fade.A Shropshire Lad (1896)
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