Quotes 3541 till 3560 of 25371.
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Both rings are round, and there the resemblance ceases.
Source: The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien -
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
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Bottom 10 Percent progressives are not enthusiastic about concentrations of wealth. But that's not what keeps them up at night. Their focus is on deprivation and lack of opportunity. They're motivated by empathy for people who are suffering, rather than outrage over unjustified wealth.
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Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.
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Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.
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Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.
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Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don't like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.
Source: Tim Teeman, The importance of being Childish, The Times, 2006-12-02 -
Bowie was much more responsible for the aesthetic of punk rock than he's been given credit for, like, in fact, most interesting things in the Seventies and Eighties.
Source: Rolling Stone interview (2005) -
Boxing distills and illuminates the essence of an athlete. There's nowhere to hide. Boxers live and perform at the extremes. They provide us with answers about a given contest, but more important, they ask us fundamental questions about human narratives. What does this person really stand for? How far will he go to defend it?
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Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.
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Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.
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Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
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Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
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Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
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Boys, there ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got the raw deals. You've got to say, ''I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'' It's called perseverance.
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BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease to blow oil into the environment. They did not have a lease to disperse the oil and try to hide the body. They don't have a lease to clean up.
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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
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Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
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Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I fell in love with it.
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