Quotes 281 till 300 of 442.
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Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason ;knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.
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Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.
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Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.
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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.
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Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It's very exterior.
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Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record - Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages - you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?
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Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return. And we can. Because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
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Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.
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Speak roughly to your little boy, and beat him when he sneezes: he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.
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Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.
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Stupidity knows no bounds and certainly no city limits, but by and large, 99 percent of the people who come to Melvins shows seem to be relatively well behaved... I'm happy and relieved by this.
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Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.
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Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.
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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
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The battle is all over except the ''shouting'' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
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