Quotes 941 till 960 of 2849.
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In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.
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In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
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In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.
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In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning.
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In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.
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In this wild world the fondest and the best
are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd. -
In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
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In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.
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In today's world, most people are working side jobs while waiting to do what they really want to do.
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In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.
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Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.
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India is the most competitive manufacturing destination on this planet. If we are able to take advantage of that competitiveness for our domestic markets, this country would be humming with activity; industrial production will grow at 10-11% per year.
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Indubitably, Magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.
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Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it.
Source: Invader (1995) -
Information is not power. If information were power, then librarians would be the most powerful people on the planet.
Source: Speech at Social Work Futures Conference, Houston, Tex., 23 May 1994 -
Injuries aren't anything foreign to me. I am used to overcoming illness and injury; you can't complain about it. When you're standing up there on the blocks, it doesn't really matter: it's all about the next minute.
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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Instead of going into politics, I decided to go into comedy, which is the second most daunting career path for a woman.
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Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.
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Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.
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