Quotes 381 till 400 of 1404.
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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
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How long should you try? Until.
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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?
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How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
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How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
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Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term... If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that's difficult to do.
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Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers
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I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run.
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I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme.
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I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change.
We moeten allemaal feminist zijn (2014) -
I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
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I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
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I am so changeable, being every thing by turns and nothing long,— I am such a strange mélange of good and evil.
The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal (1833) -
I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.
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I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.
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I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast.
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I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
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