Quotes 3521 till 3540 of 4622.
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The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
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The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
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The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
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The system was aided by the Church, whose natural interests allied it more to the great than to the meek.
A Distant Mirror -
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.
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The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.
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The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.
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The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
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The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
Lord of the Flies -
The thing with drama is you're allowed to invent people who are maybe slightly better than real people.
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The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
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The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.
Cosmos (1980) 221 -
The trading characteristics of a security become more important than its underlying economics. The virtual economics began to drive the physical economy rather than the other way around.
The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 3 -
The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.
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The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
Towards A Canada of Light Interlude, p. 113
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