Quotes 1021 till 1040 of 1282.
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The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day.
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The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
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The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
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The time of day we choose for prayer doesn't matter, so long as we keep it faithfully. Prayer must be part of the rhythm of our daily lives.
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The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.
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The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.
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The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
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The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.
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The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.
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The turnover with models - I cannot keep up. And in my day, we had so much personality. We probably caused a lot more trouble, but it was fun.
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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, tired of common sense and civilization.
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The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
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The whole idea is to enable you to see mentally the picture at all hours of the day.
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The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.
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The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.
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The work of deciding cases goes on every day in hundreds of courts throughout the land. Any judge, one might suppose, would find it easy to describe the process which he had followed a thousand times and more. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
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