Quotes 301 till 320 of 2427.
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
Source: No Country for Old Men (2007) 244 -
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, Bokonon tells us. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.
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Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
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Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.
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Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.
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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
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Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
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Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
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Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Source: The Conquest of Happiness (1930) -
Born down in a dead man's town;
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just covering up.Source: Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Born in the USA -
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.
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Broadway! Broad-way! I don't aspire to the middle. I aspire to the tip-tip-top of it all.
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Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else's philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.
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Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
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Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.
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