Quotes 261 till 280 of 425.
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One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is better than 50 half-finished tasks
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One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
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Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.
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Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.
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Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.
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Poets are all who love, who feel great truths.
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Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
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Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.
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Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate's, like, half Afghani, so it's going to cause some static.'
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Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.
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Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.
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Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
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Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but passé. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.
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So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
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So I'm half deaf - and dyslexic. How about that? Nobody's perfect, and I'm proud of my defects.
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So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout.
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Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940)
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