Quotes 3141 till 3160 of 3763.
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To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
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To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
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To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks with a rasor.
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To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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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 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 judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.
Aantekening op zijn bijbel -
To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
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To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.
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To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness.
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.
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To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.
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To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.
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To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body - both go together, they can't be separated.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought.
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To me, everything outside of Los Angeles is the 'south,' including places like San Diego. It's sort of like the saying, 'Everything is God.' Indeed it is.
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