Quotes 2421 till 2440 of 5709.
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Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.
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Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
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Portland is a really great city, especially because I'm a shopper and there's no sales tax! That really adds up so fast, because in California, a $1000 pair of shoes ends up costing another $100.
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Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.
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Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.
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Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
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Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
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Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
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Presence is more than just being there.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.
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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
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Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
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Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.
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Probably the single most important evolutionary trait dogs developed was right there at the outset, illuminated by the campfire. It is in those eyebrows and in the way dogs have of tilting their heads. They are warm packages of emotions.
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Production and consumption of carbohydrates is so well regulated that there is a constant blood sugar level; any accidental increase or fall in blood sugar is rapidly compensated.
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Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.
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