Quotes 2161 till 2180 of 2249.
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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.
Source: 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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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.
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Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.
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Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
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Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
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Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
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Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
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Yes, I'm having a baby. I think it's so hard as a woman to give yourself a break. It's great to be healthy but you have to set a good example for your kids and know that it's not about a number on a scale but how you feel.
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You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
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