Quotes 3041 till 3060 of 6052.
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Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.
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October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
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October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The other are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) CH. 13 -
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
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Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
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Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
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Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.
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Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.
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Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
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Of all the movies I've done in my life, the one where I play a crazy awful psycho woman finds me my husband.
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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.
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Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
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Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.
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Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
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Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?.
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Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.
Een geschikte jongen (1993) 609
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