Quotes 301 till 320 of 1350.
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Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.
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Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.
The Prospect for Humanity, Saturday Review, 29 August 1964Richard Buckminster Fuller
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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech.
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For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.
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For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.
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For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.
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Forgive! How many will say, ''forgive,'' and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!
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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
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Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.
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General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.
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Genius, scholar, and war hero though he is, you have to admit - or maybe you should think about admitting - that George Bush might have rushed things a little in invading Iraq.
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