Quotes 3181 till 3200 of 4321.
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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.
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The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.
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The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
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The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.
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The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.
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The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.
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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
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The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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The only medicine that does women more good than harm is dress.
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The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.
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The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.
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The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.
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The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
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The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
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The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.
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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
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