Quotes 10941 till 10960 of 13894.
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There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs - apart from discernment - a certain greatness to find him.
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There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.
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There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.
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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
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There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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There are few good women who do not tire of their role.
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There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
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There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.
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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
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There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
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There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: ''More money for more work.''
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There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
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There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?
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There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists.
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There are lots of people shaping decisions, and so if we want to predict correctly, we have to pay attention to everybody who is trying to shape the outcome, not just the people at the pinnacle of the decision-making pyramid.
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There are lots of retailers that are now scrambling to emulate the Amazon model, so Amazon does not have a monopoly on same-day distribution or broad selection or low prices. All that said, there are advantages that accrue to the largest player, so I don't see much in the way of Amazon slowing down.
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