Quotes 261 till 280 of 1105.
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History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.
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Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May - how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.
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How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.
Intimacy (2010) 83 -
How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!
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How often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.
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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.
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How to test? is a question that cannot be answered in general. When to test? however, does have a general answer: as early and as often as possible.
The C++ Programming Language. p. 712 -
However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.
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Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.
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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
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Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.
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I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
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I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.
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I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
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