Quotes 8121 till 8140 of 10439.
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Then I though of reading - the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication.
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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
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Theorists can create all sorts of theories which go beyond the Standard Model. But there's not one bit of experimental evidence to point out which way you should go.
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There are 500 million people on Facebook, but what are they saying to each other? Not much.
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There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you.
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There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies.
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There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.
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There are a lot of complaints by the older generation about the lack of action in this generation. My retort: give these people something to be engaged in. Cutting a check is not engaging.
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There are a lot of gay people in fashion, but it's not as if every gay person is a great creator.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.
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There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.
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There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.
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There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.
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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
De stenen dagboeken (2008) 82 -
There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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There are few good women who do not tire of their role.
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There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
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There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.
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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
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