Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 2849.
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Most glorious art thou! when from thy pavilion Thou lookest forth at morning; flinging wide Its curtain clouds of purple and vermillion, Dispensing life and light on every side.
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Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They're almost like tangent lines - those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.
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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Source: Themes and Variations (1950). -
Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.
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Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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Most independent filmmakers in Britain and North America work for commercial crews and then have their own projects when they've got enough money saved up to do so.
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Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities - especially visually - with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it.
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Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.
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Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
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Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
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Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.
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Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
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Most men are rather stupid, and most of those who are not stupid are, consequently, rather vain.
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Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.
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Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.
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