Quotes 5121 till 5140 of 6475.
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The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
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The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be.
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The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development.
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The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
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Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.
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Then there were his encounters with the two mystics. Trudeau met Mounier only once, according to the Nemnis; and according to John English, he had only one direct encounter with Teilhard de Chardin.
Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Substance, Pressure, Beyond, Pulse in Matter, p. 2 -
Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one.
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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 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 couple of things that I'm sure people don't think are important, but I do. I don't like hair changes unless there's a reason for it. Clothing - I don't like to see an outfit worn more than one time in an hour - you can wear it again a few weeks later.
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There are a lot of ways to mispronounce my name. That is the least common I checked with my mother. In 50 years no one's ever called her Elsie Fag.
Responding to Dick Armeys referring to him as Barney Fag, unidentified publication/date -
There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
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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 always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
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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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