Quotes 2141 till 2160 of 2457.
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We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, ''Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did''; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
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We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).
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We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
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We must make the choises that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
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We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
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We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
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We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.
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We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
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We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.
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We never make a decision. When the time is right, the decision makes itself.
Source: Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002) -
We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is "one and one." We forget that we still have to make a study of "and.".
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We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look.
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We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!
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We put everything we had into this record, just like we do with every other record that we make.
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We romantic writers are there to make people feel and not think. A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, thou art noble and nude and antique.
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We should make a major financial commitment to improving our roads and bridges.
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We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.
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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
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