Quotes 2401 till 2420 of 2427.
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I love the way people talk crap. I hear it all the time. 'Overrated.' 'You suck.' I'll just do something to shut them up, like, 'I'll show you.'
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I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.
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If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.
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If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.
Source: Epigrams (1911) p.353 -
In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to discipline a child is still a mystery to most fathers and... mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.
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Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
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No one missed more basketball in the history of NBA than I did. I played 14 seasons, on the roster for 14 years, and I missed more than nine-and-a-half full seasons.
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Not enjoyment and not sorrow, is our destined end or way; but to act that each tomorrow find us farther than today.
Source: A Psalm of Life -
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than today.
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Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say 'Bless You'.
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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
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Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter.
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Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
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Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Source: Epigrams (1911) p.358 -
The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.
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The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
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The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.
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