Quotes 301 till 320 of 433.
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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
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Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.
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The age of the book is almost gone.
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The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Speach Glasgow 19 November 1870 -
The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.
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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.
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The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church...is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.
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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
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The discovery of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the discovery of America almost 500 years earlier. In the case of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived.
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The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
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The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.
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The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.
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The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.
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The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
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The habit of courtesy, when once acquired, is almost impossible to get rid of.
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The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.
A User's Guide to the Millennium (1996)
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