Quotes 6901 till 6920 of 9541.
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The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god.
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The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself!
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The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.
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The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?
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The players often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio -
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr -
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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The poets who have written the best poems about war seem to be the poets whose countries have experienced an invasion or vicious dictatorships.
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.
Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations -
The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.
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The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
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The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ''Soho'' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
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The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
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The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.
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