Quotes 1541 till 1560 of 2174.
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The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
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The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.
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The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
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The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
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The great growling engine of change - technology.
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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
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The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
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The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
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The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.
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The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
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The great man has two hearts - one bleeds, the second one endures.
Sand and Foam (1926) -
The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
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The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
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The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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