Quotes 1801 till 1820 of 10005.
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But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
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But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?
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But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.
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But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.
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But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore.
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By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.
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By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
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By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
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By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
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By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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By knowing each man's ruling passion, we are sure of pleasing him; and yet each has his fancies, opposed to his true good, in the very idea which he has of the good.
Pensees (1669) -
By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
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By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
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By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
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By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
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By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.
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By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
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