Quotes 18921 till 18940 of 25371.
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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
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The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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The sea was at the bottom of my road, and I seemed to spend my childhood in it or on it, hearing, tasting, smelling it. Now, still, I need to be near water as often as possible.
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The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says, ''but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.''
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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The search for someone to blame is always successful.
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The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.
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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.
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The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed upon.
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The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.
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The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
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The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
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The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn't discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.
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The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.
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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
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