Quotes 3721 till 3740 of 6013.
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Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
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Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
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Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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Part of my evolution has been to learn how painful most people's childhoods are. They grow up not liking themselves, not loving themselves. Ask people if they were lovable the minute they were born, and watch them sit back and have to think about it. One lady said, 'I suppose so.' That's painful.
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Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery.
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Peace in the Middle East is of prime importance to the Philippines, due to the presence of around 2 million of our countrymen working in that region.
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
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People are easily intimidated when they decorate their home. They think it has to be one way. But there's no one way. It's your way, your style. At the end of the day, you have to live there. It's your cocoon, your nest. You have to be happy in it.
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People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
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People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created.
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