Quotes 3621 till 3640 of 5709.
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There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously. It is the story you must take that way.... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
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There is a history in all men's lives.
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There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
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There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.
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There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable.
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There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.
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There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
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There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
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There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.
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There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
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There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
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There is a long history of newspapers being doomed. They were doomed by radio. They were doomed by television. They were probably doomed by the telegraph way back when.
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There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.
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There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
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There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level there is scepticism as to whether it is really fiction.
(2012)
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