Quotes 241 till 260 of 4330.
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We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.
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We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.
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Well done, is better than well said.
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Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.
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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
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When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.
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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
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You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.
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Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
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All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.
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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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''If everybody minded their own business,'' the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, ''the world would go round a deal faster than it does.''
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'Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.
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