Quotes 381 till 400 of 5418.
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A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.
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A man with few friends is only halfdeveloped; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed.
Source: Youth and life (1913) -
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
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A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.
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A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something that they want.
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A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
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A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
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A minority group has arrived only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.
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A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.
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A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. Each of the chemical elements is a pattern integrity. Each individual is a pattern integrity. The pattern integrity of the human individual is evolutionary and not static.
Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975) Pattern Integrity 505.201― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
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A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847)
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