Quotes 481 till 500 of 1169.
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Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.
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Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
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Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
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Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
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Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.
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It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
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It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.
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It didn't take long to recognise the shortcomings of the Soviet regime and to see the values of the free world.
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It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. Every new relationship is a new word.
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It doesn't matter that millions read as long as you share it with somebody. So I don't really think about readers or editors. You especially should never think of editors - especially never think about reviewers.
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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.
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It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.
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It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.
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It doesn't seem that long ago to me that the word 'irreverent' seemed affixed to my name. 'Irreverent newcomer.' I went from irreverent to venerable in what seems to me like the blink of an eye.
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It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
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It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
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It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
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