Quotes 441 till 460 of 559.
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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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The weak shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights.
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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
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The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
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The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
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The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.
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There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
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There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
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There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others.
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There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.
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There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, ''Is it good in itself?'' In the second, ''Can it be easily put into practice?''
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.
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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.
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There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
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There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people...
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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
Billie Jean -
There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
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