Quotes 2081 till 2100 of 2174.
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Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.
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Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother.
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Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
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Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?
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Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.
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Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.
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Winning the green jacket is great - I can pay for all the diapers I'm going to have to get.
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Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
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With a fresh start, I hope it'll work out good. I know the whole Fox story and how he came over here and had a great year for them. I'm hoping that's what it'll be - fresh start, new faces, new team, new city. I'm looking forward to getting out there.
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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
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With The Allman Brothers, we made two studio records that were OK, but the first really great album was the live one, 'At Fillmore East.' We were a live band, and it's one of the reasons we were able to stick around for 45 years.
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With the great part of rich people, the chief employment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
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With the sole exception of President Bill Clinton, whose 'bridge to the 21st century' evoked the vision and optimism of other great Democratic presidents of the 20th century, such as FDR and John F. Kennedy, pessimism about America's economic future has been the hallmark of modern progressivism.
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Women over 35 have great stories, and the actresses are there, but you can't get the movies made.
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Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.
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