Quotes 1121 till 1140 of 10005.
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A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
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A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet (2000) 13 -
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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A playwright is the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's great.
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A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
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A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.
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A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
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A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.
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A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.
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A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
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A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
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A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoebae would agree with this opinion is not known.
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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
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