Quotes 21 till 40 of 283.
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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
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Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.
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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.
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Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
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Bad things happen when problems are protected by a force field of tediousness.
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But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.
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By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again - and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.
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California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.
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Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.
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Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.
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Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
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Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen.
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Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.
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Do I ever think Gossip will be really massive in America? No, I don't think it'll happen - and that's fine. It's kind of nice because I get to experience everything at once. I get to come home and it not be weird, like in Paris or something. It is nice to be completely anonymous.
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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
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Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.
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Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
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English history turned on Henry VIII and his desires, his whims almost. And it was down to Cromwell to make those desires happen. He was the guy that fixed it. He was also the guy that eased Henry's conscience. Because Henry VIII had an enormous, tender conscience and great theological knowledge.
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Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
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Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happen - it wouldn't do much to halt climate change any time soon. What it would do is cost us hundreds of billions - if not trillions - of dollars, because alternative energy technologies are not yet ready to take up the slack.
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