Quotes 5421 till 5440 of 28471.
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Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
Ever the Winds of Chance (1983) -
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
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Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
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Every business decision I ever made I learned from my grandfather Papa Sam. He moved here from Russia when he was a boy. He worked his way up selling newspapers and ladies' handbags, and eventually, he became Cadillac Sam, one of the biggest car dealers in Chicago.
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Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.
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Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and we’re made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe.
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Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.
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Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
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Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.
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Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.
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Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
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Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) -
Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.
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Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
Chinese political figure who was First Lady of the Republic of China (1897 - 2003) -
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
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Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
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Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
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Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
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