Quotes 21 till 40 of 169.
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Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.
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After Huguette Clark died in 2011 at age 104, 19 relatives challenged her will, claiming she was mentally ill and had been defrauded by her nurse, attorney and accountant.
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Against ill chances men are ever merry, but heaviness foreruns the good event.
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
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All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!
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All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
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Although she herself was ill enough to justify being in bed had been a person weak-minded enough to give up, Rose Sawyer could see that her brother, the Reverend Samuel Sayer, was far more ill.
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American ladies are known abroad for two distinguishing traits (besides, possibly, their beauty and self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress.
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Among all my patients in the second half of life... every one of them fell ill because he had lost what the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
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An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
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And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.
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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
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As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
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Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill living.
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Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.
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Baseball breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.
The Green Fields of the Mind, Yale Alumni Magazine, November 1977 -
Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.
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Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.
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