Quotes 761 till 780 of 1583.
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Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.
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Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
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Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, whose vague resolves never have been fulfilled.
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Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.
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Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.
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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
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Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to ''make'' your luck by being always prepared.
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Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.
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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
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Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
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Make sure you know your identity is in Christ, so that when you get laid off from your job, or when you get a raise from your job, or when things don't go right, you're not up and down, up and down.
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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
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Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.
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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.
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Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols - it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
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