Quotes 841 till 860 of 1141.
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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
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The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
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The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.
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The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
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The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
Dialogues in Limbo (1925) -
The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.
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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
An Old Mans Diary (1981) p. 39 -
The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.
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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
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The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.
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The idea that you can create a template that will work forever doesn't happen in any business. There's some really, really bright people in this business. You can't do the same thing the same way and be successful for a long period of time.
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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
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The key that unlocks energy is ''Desire.'' It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.
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The lack of portability and competition has long been a problem in America's insurance market, yet Obamacare took no significant steps to open up the market between state lines.
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The last thing you want to do is play a long gig on a hot night, pass out, and wind up in a hospital emergency room.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
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