Quotes 16701 till 16720 of 25360.
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The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
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The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
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The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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The abstinent run away from what they desire
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
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The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
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The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
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The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
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The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.
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The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
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The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
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The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination - aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence.
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The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.
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The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe.
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The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe.
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The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government.
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