Quotes 1301 till 1320 of 1663.
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The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.
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The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
Works (1913) IV, 315 -
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
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The self-driving car is coming. And right now, our best supply of organs come from car accidents... Once we have self-driving cars, we can actually reduce the number of accidents, but the next problem then would be organ replacement.
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The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
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The single best indicator of whether or not a child is going to be in poverty or not is whether or not they were raised by a two-parent household or a single parent household.
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The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
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The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.
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The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.
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The telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
Interviewed J. Rentilly (sept. 2002) -
The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.
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The thing about The Dubliners is - line'em up, the hardest rock'n'roll bands in the world, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Oasis, Nirvana, U2 - we're all a bunch of girls next to The Dubliners
quoted on Ronnie Drew (2008) -
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
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The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
The Art of Worldly Wisdom -
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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The trouble with you Chicago people is that you think you are the best people down here, whereas you are merely the most numerous.
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The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
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The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?
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