Quotes 181 till 200 of 633.
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I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
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I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.
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I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
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I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.
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I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.
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I think that in order to struggle you have to be creative. In my life, creativity has been something that has sustained me; it awoke my spiritual struggle.
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I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily.
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I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
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I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change their motive to service in order to change their lives.
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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
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If a company has acted badly, people want to punish it - not in order to deter future misconduct, but simply because they're outraged. And the more outraged they are, the more punishment they want to inflict.
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If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
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If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.
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If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
Pensees (1669) -
If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I'd decline. ''Just keep my liver and lungs in good working order,'' I'd reply, ''so I can go on drinking and smoking!''
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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girl friends. And they tolerated it and let us go ahead and play with our toys.
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