Quotes 741 till 760 of 20393.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
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Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
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Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.
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Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.
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Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.
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People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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People tend to remember my performances, not me.
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People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the heart of a small boy - and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
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Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant.
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Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
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Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.
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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
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Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
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Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
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