Quotes 681 till 700 of 11267.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
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A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.
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A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.
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A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.
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A gentleman is a man whose principal ideas are not connected with his personal needs and his personal succes.
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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she 'adjust' to prejudice and discrimination.
The Feminine Mystique Ch. 1 The Problem That Has No Name -
A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
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A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
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A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
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A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
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A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.
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A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit, it hits all by itself.
Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon (1973) -
A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
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