Quotes 2721 till 2740 of 11531.
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Flattery is all right if you don't inhale.
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Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.
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Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world.
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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
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Folks are serious about three things: Their religion, their family and, most of all, their money.
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Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.
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Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?
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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
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Football has always been a big part of my life. Almost from the day I was born, playing and coaching football were all I really ever wanted to do.
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For 'Breaking Bad,' it was like, that's one of the best pilots, probably the best pilot I have ever read.
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For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application - why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.
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For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
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For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.
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For a sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
De Profundis (1897) -
For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.
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For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 7 min 25 sec
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