Quotes 2541 till 2560 of 5418.
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King Lear alone among these plays has a distinct double action. Besides this, it is impossible, I think, from the point of view of construction, to regard the hero as the leading figure.
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Knowing that you're the one who's been rejected, God it makes you feel isolated. I defy anybody not to be a bit upset. I felt as though I'd walked into the house trailing all this baggage.
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Knowledge has killed the sun, making it a ball of gas, with spots.
Lady Chatterley's Lover -
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
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Knowledge must be so absorbed into the mind that it ceases to exist in a separate, objective way. ...in 1797 the secret of the effectiveness of resisting to the last had not yet been discovered.
On War (1832) -
Kublai noticed this uncommon perception that Marco Polo has, with the idea to explain and talk about his country so vividly that he can see it.
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Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights.
Works of Abraham Lincoln (2010 edition) -
Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
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Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.
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Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the perfect place to become not someone else, but someone new.
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Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
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Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence.
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
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Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
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Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.
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Learning to skip has brought control into her life. Whenever she feels all sad, she switches into this wholly happy gait, sliding, hopping, and sliding again; when doing this, it seems as though her head separates from her body, making her feel dizzy and emptied out of bad thoughts. Does anyone else know this trick, she wonders? Probably not, although her Mother sometimes smiles and waves from the window.
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