Quotes 5581 till 5600 of 7742.
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The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
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The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
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The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.
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The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
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The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
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The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.
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The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.
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The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
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The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.
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The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.
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The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.
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The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.
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The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.
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The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.
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The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
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The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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