Quotes 1441 till 1460 of 2072.
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The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.
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The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
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The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.
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The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything - and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.
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The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense; yet it is much more immediately noticeable and much more universally noticed, because the body is more sensitive than the mind.
The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism, a lecture delivered on August 4, 1921 -
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
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The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.
Proverbs of hell -
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
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The easiest ways to improve your appearance is with a really good moisturizer that will plump up your skin, a bit of concealer and a creamy blush on your cheek and lip. It's quick and easy and you'll look so much better.
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
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The end of times has always been a fascination. But post 9/11, pretty much everybody will admit to having it on their minds more frequently than when they were a kid.
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
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The excitement is growing so much I think the Geiger counter of Olympo-mania is going to go zoink off the scale.
On the forthcoming London Olympic Games. Daily Telegraph, 27 July 2012. -
The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.
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The fact is that we like each other very much, and we of course see each other on stage all the time, but this means more time to spend together, and that's great. We couldn't be happier.
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The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.
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The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
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