Quotes 901 till 920 of 1274.
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The male singers who had the same range I did, when I was growing up, didn't do much for me. But put on Nina Simone, Carmen McRae or Nancy Wilson, and I'd be in seventh heaven. Female vocalists just did more with their voices, and that's why I paid more attention to them.
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The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them.
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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
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The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.
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The methods that EPA introduced after 1970 to reduce air-pollutant emissions worked for a while, but over time have become progressively less effective.
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The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.
Ethics -
The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
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The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.
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The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.
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The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.
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The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.
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The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.
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The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.
Dracula (1897) -
The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices - against half the human race - that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.
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The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
The myths have always condemned those who ''looked back.'' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
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The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
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The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.
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The Niagara Falls? Simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary rocks.
In Oscar Wilde, His Life and Wit (1946)
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