Quotes 4241 till 4260 of 5903.
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The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.
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The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.
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The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever copied.
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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.
Source: Motivation and Personality (1954) -
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as the other.
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The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
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The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
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The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
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The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
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The great decisions of human life usually have far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no universal recipe for living. Each of us carries his own life-form within him-an irrational form which no other can outbid.
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
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The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
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The great man has two hearts - one bleeds, the second one endures.
Source: Sand and Foam (1926) -
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
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The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.
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The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
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