Quotes 241 till 260 of 446.
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My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.
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My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.
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Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.
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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
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Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
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Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
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No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
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No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
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No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
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No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
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No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
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No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
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Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.
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Not partial membership of the European Union or anything that leaves us half in, half out. No, the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union.
Source: British Prime Minister Theresa May Outlines Plan To Leave European Union (2017)
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