Quotes 1101 till 1120 of 2457.
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It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
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It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.
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It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
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It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.
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Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
Source: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1872-1914 -
Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.
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Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.
Source: The Big Story, speech to the Texas State Historical Association, 7 March 1997, Moyers on Democracy -
Judaism's campaign to make divinity invisible has never fully succeeded. Images are always eluding moral control, creating the brilliant western art tradition. Idolatry is fascism of the eye. The western eye will be served, with or without the consent of conscience.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.
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Just being able to get paid to do something you love is a wonderful thing. That said, a writer's daily routine, unless you're Dominick Dunne, isn't exactly glamorous. Much of it amounts to drudgery, staring at a computer screen all day in a room by yourself, juggling nouns and verbs to make a demanding editor happy.
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Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
Source: Lecture at Yale University Law School (1923) -
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.
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Ladies, here's a hint. If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed.
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Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
Source: The Satanic Verses -
Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
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Leaders thrive when they feel creatively empowered, when they trust the people around them, when their confidence is swelling. Leaders make mistakes when they lose that same confidence, when they're fretting about their power base, when they're reacting instead of acting.
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