Quotes 721 till 740 of 802.
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We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.
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We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
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We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what they say and how they say it, our narrow prejudices evaporate and we are nourished and armed.
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We love Cyclops and as you know, we love James. It's a great team and we'll continue the team, obviously.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.
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Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.
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Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
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Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
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Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.
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Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.
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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
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What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.
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What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise - although the philosophers generally call it ''recognition''!
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What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.
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What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
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