Quotes 1861 till 1880 of 2457.
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The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To ''make a beeline'' for something. That's worthy of being immortal and is immortal in English idiom. ''I guess I'll split'' is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded.
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The thing that's confusing for investors is that founders don't know how to be CEO. I didn't know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don't know how to be CEOs, but it doesn't mean they can't learn. The question is... can the founder learn that job and can they tolerate all mistakes they will make doing it?
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The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa - not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is 'you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say why not; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before.
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The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
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The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
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The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
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The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) The Magicians Nephew (1955), Ch. 10 : The First Jo -
The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
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The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.
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The truth is I am a perfect part of the exact point at which all individual human beings meet and the spectrum of voices weaving themselves in between and screaming 'every sick thought you've ever had and every twisted feeling you've ever felt are what make this painting complete.
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The truth is, most of us believe in trying to make other people happy, only if they can be happy in ways which we can approve.
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The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind.
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The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.
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The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
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The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
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The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
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The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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