Quotes 4701 till 4720 of 7742.
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
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People would rather sleep their way through life than stay awake for it.
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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
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People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.
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Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.
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Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.
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Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
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Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
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Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
The quotable Calvin Coolidge: sensible words for a new century (2001) -
Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
Midnight's Children (2010) 596 -
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
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Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.
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