Quotes 61 till 80 of 1686.
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.
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The doctors realized very clearly that their minds and emotions were changing from day to day. On the one hand they were healing the patient, and on the other it looked as if they were healing themselves too. It was this chief surgeon who first volunteered to offer his skin when grafting began.
A Battle For Life -
The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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The man who never has money enough to pay his debts has too much of something else.
Sparks from the philosopher's stone (1882) -
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
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There is always something funny going on between scenes with Adam Sandler. He's always cracking jokes and yelling at people for no reason. It's pretty funny. He'll joke around during scenes, too. When he guest-starred on 'Jessie,' there was nothing in the script that he said first take.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
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Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
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''Doing your own thing'' is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.
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'As a genereal rule you shouldn't expect too much from people darling,' and then I kiss her on the cheek.
Glamorama (1998) -
'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.
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'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
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