Quotes 1081 till 1100 of 1522.
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The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
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The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.
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The discovery of this strange society was a curiously refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in the world was like looking at the first ship or the first plough. It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.
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The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken.
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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
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The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
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The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.
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The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
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The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting.
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The fact is that I made a stand a number of times in my career, and I did it because I knew I was right.
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The fact of the matter is I'm 21 now. I stay home. I feed my dogs. I don't really go out. I work.
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The far right seeks to retain the material progress of American capitalism while removing some of its crucial causes and consequences - as though a bridge could be made to change part of its function by blowing up part of its supports and part of its exit.
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The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.
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The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.
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The first presentation of my show was given in May, 1883, at Omaha, which I had then chosen as my home. From there we made our first summer tour, visiting practically every important city in the country.
An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (2009 edition), Arc Manor LLC -
The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But we soon began stretching our riders and making better time.
The Buffalo Bill Megapack: 5 Classic Books About Buffalo Bill Cody (2013 edition), Wildside Press LLC
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