Quotes 181 till 200 of 409.
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Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
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Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.
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It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.
Oracle Night (2009) 35 -
It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.
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It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe.
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It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
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It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
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It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
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It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
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It seems that you live in someone else's dream
In a hand-me-down wedding dress
With the things that could have been are repressed
But you said your vows and you closed the door
On so many men who would have loved you moreNarrow Stairs -
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
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It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.
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It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
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It's better to negotiate behind closed doors than it is to be out throwing rocks at one another in the public square.
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